{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/aesop/aes163.htm","path":"cla/aesop/aes163.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aesop/aes163.htm","text":"THE WOODCUTTER cut down a Mountain Oak and split it in pieces, making wedges of its own branches for dividing the trunk. The Oak said with a sigh, \"I do not care about the blows of the axe aimed at my roots, but I do grieve at being torn in pieces by these wedges made from my own branches.\"\nMisfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear.","title":"The Oak and the Woodcutters","type":"page"}