A Farmer walked through his field one cold winter morning. On the ground lay a Snake, stiff and frozen with the cold. The Farmer knew how deadly the Snake could be, and yet he picked it up and put it in his bosom to warm it back to life.
The Snake soon revived, and when it had enough strength, bit the man who had been so kind to it. The bite was deadly and the Farmer felt that he must die. As he drew his last breath, he said to those standing around: “Learn from my fate not to take pity on a scoundrel.”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around 620–564 BCE, whose fables have shaped moral literature across centuries and cultures. "The Farmer And The Snake" is one of his most direct cautionary tales, ending not with a narrator's moral but with the dying farmer himself delivering the lesson in his final breath.
