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Zeus and the monkey

(Aesop’s Fables)

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　Zeus made an official notice to the forest animal,

“I will make the most beautiful being the King.”

　Then,

　a very kind, but bold and ugly monkey with short nose came

　and said that he will stand as a candidate for the King.

　The other animals started to laugh when they heard his words.

　However, the mother of the ugly monkey came and said

“I don’t know if Zeus will make my son a King.

　But I know as a mother that my son is noble and dignified.

　He is beautiful than any one of you.”



　We don’t know if Zeus made the young monkey a King.

　However, the mother who knows the monkey well thought him the best choice as a King.

　Every people have different values.

　Do not judge people by their appearances but by their characters within.

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