A knight on his way through a deep wood, suddenly
spied a monstrous dragon in the thick of the forest. He was a very brave man
and had often fought and defeated dozens of even bigger dragons. But this particular
dragon had one hundred long necks as many heads, and the same number of
terrible, gaping jaws!
It would have been easy a dragon with three heads or
even seven, but a hundred! He decided he had no choice but to flee. He was
wrong in his judgment. It was because of its tangle of necks that the dragon
would never have been able to get free from the thick undergrowth. It could
therefore have been easily defeated.
A little later, the knight spied a second dragon in
the thickets before him. This time the
dragon had only one head, and thus the knight approached it fearlessly, sword
in hand. But, although this dragon had only one head, it had one hundred legs,
and in moments it rushed so quickly through the thicket, that it caught the
reckless knight and made mincemeat of him.
This story shows that it is better to have a hundred
legs that obey you, that a hundred heads to give orders
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