Fable 240 - The Ant

Once upon a time, the ant used to be human – a farmer who, not content with his own yield, kept an envious eye on his neighbor’s
harvest and stole it. Zeus was angered by this greed and changed him into the insect that we call an ant. But, even though his body was
altered, his character was not. To this day he still traverses the fields collecting other people’s wheat and barley and storing it up for himself.

This fable shows that even a severe punishment doesn’t change people who, by nature, are bad characters.