The Stag at the Pool and the Amoronia antlers earrings

A Stag overpowered by heat came to a spring to drink. Seeing his own shadow reflected in the water, he greatly admired the size and variety of his horns, but felt angry with himself for having such slender and weak feet. While he was thus contemplating himself, a Lion appeared at the pool and crouched to spring upon him. The Stag immediately took to flight, and exerting his utmost speed, as long as the plain was smooth and open, kept himself easily at a safe distance from the Lion. But entering a wood he became entangled by his horns, and the Lion quickly came up to him and caught him. When too late, he thus reproached himself: 'Woe is me! How I have deceived myself! These feet which would have saved me I despised, and I gloried in these antlers which have proved my destruction'.

What is most truly valuable is often underrated.

(Aesop's Fables - The Stag at the Pool, translated by George Fyler Townsend)

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The Cock and the Pearl

A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens, when suddenly he saw something shining in the straw. ‘Ho! Ho!’ said he, ‘That’s for me!’, and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. What did it turn out to be but a pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard? ‘You may be a treasure to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barleycorn than a peck of pearls’, said the cock.

Moral: Precious things are for those that can prize them.

(Aesop, The Cock and The Pearl).

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