A Mule, frolicsome from lack of work and from too much corn, galloped about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself: “My father surely was a high-mettled racer, and I am his own child in speed and spirit.” On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very wearied, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: “I must have made a mistake; my father, after all, could have been only an ass.”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around 620–564 BCE, whose fables have shaped moral storytelling across centuries and cultures. "The Mule" is a characteristically compact Aesop fable — delivering its lesson about vanity and self-deception in under a hundred words, with a wry wit that remains sharp to this day.
