Aesop's Fables - The Man and his Gold

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The Man and his Gold

    

     The Man and his Gold

 There was a miser who sold his property and bought a chunk of gold. Then the man buried his gold just outside the city walls. He constantly went there to visit and inspect it. One of the workmen noticed the man's behavior and suspected the truth. For that reason, after the man had gone away, he took the gold chunk. When the man came back and found that the hiding place was empty, he began to cry and scratch his hair. Someone saw the man's extravagant misery and asked him what was happen. The miser man told him the reason why he cried. Then the man said to the miser, “Enough of your grieving! Take a stone and put it where the gold was and make believe the gold is still there. It’s not as if you ever made any use of it!”

The moral of the story:

There is no point in owning something unless you don’t use it for yourself.

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