Aesop's Fables: The Fox and the Leopard

Aesop's Fables
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The Fox and the Leopard disputed which was the more beautiful of the two.

The Leopard exhibited one by one the various spots which decorated his skin.

But the Fox, interrupting him, said,

"And how much more beautiful than you am I, who am decorated, not in body, but in mind."

The qualities of the mind are preferable to those of the body.