Fable 179 - The Hunting Hound and the Dogs

A dog reared in a house was trained to fight wild beasts. One day, when he saw several of them lined up in a battle array, he broke
loose from the dog collar round his throat and ran off through the streets. Other dogs, seeing him as bulky as bull, said to him:
‘Why are you running away?’
‘I know well,’ he replied, ‘that I live amid plenty and have more than enough to eat, but I am always close to death, fighting as
I do with bears and lions.’
Then the other dogs said to each other:
‘Although poor, we have a good life for we don’t have to fight with lions or bears.’

It is not necessary to court danger for sumptuous living or vainglory but, on the contrary, to shun it.