'The Fox and the Leopard', an illustration by John Vernon Lord
in Aesop's Fables, Jonathan Cape, 1989, page 119.
The text:
The Fox and the Leopard
THE FOX and the Leopard disputed
which was the more beautiful of the two. The Leopard exhibited one by one the
various spots which decorated his skin. The Fox, interrupting him, said, “And
how much more beautiful than you am I, who am decorated, not in body, but in
mind.”
Moral: The beauty of the mind is
more important than the beauty of the body.
Text: George Fyler Townsend (p111, 1868).
Selected parallels: Avianus 40. L’Estrange 1/252. Chambry 37.
Perry 12 and 4a. TMI J424.3.
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