THE WOODCUTTER cut down a Mountain Oak and cut it in pieces, making wedges of its own branches for dividing the trunk.
The Oak said with a sigh, "I do not care about
the blows of the axe aimed at my roots, but I do
grieve at being torn in pieces by these wedges
made from my own branches."
Moral: Misfortunes springing from
ourselves are the hardest to bear.