Can't you judge that you are an excellent person just by looking?[Aesop's Fables]
The title of this story is "Fox and Mask"
In one of the stories of the Fables of Aesop, the fox discovers a mask with a valuable appearance.
This story is used in an example of something different from a fox and a mask.
A mask is someone who looks good.
A fox is a person who judges the value of the other person.
It is a story that even a person who looks good is meaningless if there is no content.
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Is it worth it? Is it worthless? It is up to the individual who gets it to decide it.
The fox that appears in Aesop's Fables, which I'm going to talk about, seems to have thought that what he got was worthless.
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The fox looked at the expensive mask and wondered and said
"Surprisingly, it looks like a noble man, but it's empty, it's a shame."
Meaning of this story: A good-looking but useless example
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This story picked up something that looked valuable
However, it is a story that was judged to be worthless in the fox's idea.
It's not the fox's appraisal ability that matters
It is important to think about the true meaning of the mask told in the story.
The mask is not a facial decoration, it's like something else
The story compares a human who looks beautiful and expensive, but is actually incompetent, to a mask.
The Fables of Aesop describes the fox as a symbol of a sneaky and wise creature.
In other words, those who looked good and had a good career
were terribly disappointed that they were incompetent when they knew it well.That is the lesson of today's story.
See you again
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