Why in the world do you walk sideways like that? Now it was the custom among the Greeks to take their pet monkeys and dogs with them whenever they went on a voyage. Not always! Unable to free himself, he filled the forest with his angry roaring. Do you not see, replied the old Frog, that the Bull who is beaten, will be driven away from the good forage up there to the reeds of this marsh, and we shall all be trampled into the mud? Strangely enough, a Wolf was lurking near and heard what the Goat had said. An Ant was first to take the stand, and was about to be cross-examined, when a wise old Bee addressed the Court. A Bull trampled him with his heavy hoofs. My weapons will have to be ready for use then, or I shall suffer for it.
It is wiser to bear a single injury in silence than to provoke thousand by flying into a rage.