The Hares waged war with the Eagles, and called upon the Foxes to help them. They replied, “We would willingly have helped you, if we had not known who you were, and with whom you were fighting.”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, thought to have lived around 620–564 BCE, whose fables have shaped moral literature across the world for over two millennia. His tales typically feature animals whose interactions expose human follies and social truths. "The Hares and the Foxes" is among his most economical works, delivering its lesson in a single exchange with no wasted word.
