Aesop's Fables
SOME
THIEVES broke into a
house and found nothing but a
Cock, whom they
stole, and got off as fast as they could. Upon arriving at home they prepared to
kill the Cock, who thus pleaded for his life: "Pray
spare me; I am very
serviceable to men. I wake them up in the night to their work." "That is the very reason why we must the more kill you," they replied; "for when you wake your
neighbors, you entirely put an end to our
business." The
safeguards of
virtue are
hateful to those with
evil intentions.