伊索寓言：驢子與農夫

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　　The Ass and His Masters

　　AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be released from his present service and provided with another master. Jupiter, after warning him that he would repent his request, caused him to be sold to a tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, finding that he had heavier loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, he petitioned for another change of master. Jupiter, telling him that it would be the last time that he could grant his request, ordained that he be sold to a tanner. The Ass found that he had fallen into worse hands, and noting his master's occupation, said, groaning: "It would have been better for me to have been either starved by the one, or to have been overworked by the other of my former masters, than to have been bought by my present owner, who will even after I am dead tan my hide, and make me useful to him."

　　He that finds discontentment in one place is not likely to find happiness in another.

　　驢子與農夫

　　驢子給農夫干繁重的活，卻吃得很少。他跑去請求宙斯，讓他脫離農夫，賣到別的主人那里去。於是宙斯把他賣給一個陶工，陶工讓他搬運沉重的粘土和陶器，比以前更勞累。他又請求宙斯再給他換一個主人，宙斯又把他賣給了一個皮匠。他一到皮匠那里，看到要干的活，后悔不已地說：「我真不幸！留在以前的那些主人那里該多好啊！現在連我的皮都得交給這個主人了。」

　　這個故事帶出的啟示就是：許多人總是抱怨自己的生活不好，卻并不

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伊索寓言：驢子與農夫