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A Rose and a Celosia
(Aesop’s Fables)
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A celosia blooming next to a rose said to the rose,
“How beautiful you are!
You are enjoyed by the god as well as people and smell good, too. You are lucky.”
“But I can only live for a several days, Ms. Celosia.
Even if no one picks me, I will wilt on my own.
In contrast, you are always blooming and stay young for a long time.”
It is happier to live a modest but long and healthy life than to be able to splurge or have an easy life for a short while.
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