伊索寓言：守財奴
The Miser and His Gold
Once upon a time there was a Miser who used to hide his gold at the foot of a tree in his garden; but every week he used to go and dig it up and gloat over his gains. A robber, who had noticed this, went and dug up the gold and decamped with it. When the Miser next came to gloat over his treasures, he found nothing but the empty hole. He tore his hair, and raised such an outcry that all the neighbours came around him, and he told them how he used to come and visit his gold. "Did you ever take any of it out?" asked one of them. "Nay," said he, "I only came to look at it." "Then come again and look at the hole," said a neighbour; "it will do you just as much good."
Wealth unused might as well not exist.
守財奴
有個守財奴變賣了他所有的家產，換回了金塊，并秘密地埋在一個地方。他每天走去看看他的寶藏。有個在附近放羊的牧人留心觀察，知道了真情，趁他走后，挖出金塊拿走了。守財奴再來時，發現洞中的金塊沒有了，便捶胸痛哭。有個人見他如此悲痛，問明原因后，說道：「喂，朋友，別再難過了，那塊金子雖是你買來的，但并不是你真正擁有的。去拿一塊石頭來，代替金塊放在洞里，只要你心里想著那是塊金子，你就會很高興。這樣與你擁有真正的金塊效果沒甚么不同。依我之見，你擁有那金塊時，也從沒用過。」
這個故事帶出的啟示就是：一切財物如不使用等於沒有。
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