Every Man, according to an ancient legend, is born into the world with two bags suspended from his neck. A bag in front full of his neighbors’ faults, and a large bag behind filled with his own faults. Hence it is that men are quick to see the faults of others, and yet are often blind to their own failings.
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around 620–564 BCE, whose fables have been retold and preserved across thousands of years. "The Two Bags" is one of his more compact moral tales, using a single vivid metaphor to expose the universal tendency toward self-deception — a theme that feels as relevant today as it did in antiquity.
