Aesop’s Fables: The Two Bags

[Part two of an occasional series, sourced from a facsimile of the 1912 Avenal Books Edition of the ancient fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE]

Every man carries Two Bags about with him, one in front and one behind, and both are packed full of faults. The Bag in front contains his neighbors faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

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