伊索寓言-乌龟和老鹰（The Tortoise and the Eagle）

                             TheTortoise and the Eagle

A Tortoise, lazily basking in the sun,complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her tofly. An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what rewardshe would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air.  “I will give you,” she said, “all the richesof the Red Sea.” “I will teach you to fly then,” said the Eagle; and taking herup in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go,and she fell on lofty mountains, dashing her shell to pieces.

The Tortoise exclaimed in the moment ofdeath: ”I have deserved my present fate; for what had I to do with wings andclouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?”

If men had all they wished, they would beoften ruined.