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A honeybee and Zeus

(Aesop’s Fables)

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　A honeybee hated that human took its honey away.

　So one day, the bee went to the God Zeus.

“Please give me a poisonous sting to kill anyone who tries to take my honey,”

　he begged to Zeus.

　Zeus didn’t like the bee’s idea because that's what they call wishful thinking.

　Therefore, he decided the rule that if a bee stings someone,

　its sting will bent and the bee itself will die.



　This story applies to

　a vindictive person who intends to hurt someone being aware of his own risk

　that he might be hurt himself too.

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