Krilof and His Fables/The Monkey and the Mirror
The Monkey and The Mirror.
A Monkey, which saw its image one day in a mirror, gave a Bear a slight push with its foot, and said, "Only look, my dear gossip, what a hideous creature that is! What grimaces it makes! How it skips about! I should hang myself from vexation if I were at all like that. But, if we must tell the truth, are there not in the number of our friends five or six such grimacers?"
"Why take the trouble to count up your friends? Would it not be better to take a look at yourself?" answered the Bear.
But Mishka's advice was only thrown away uselessly.
There are plenty of examples of this in the world. No one is ready to recognise himself in a satire. I remarked that only yesterday. We all know that Clement's hands are not clean. Every one charges Clement with taking bribes; but he shakes his head with secret horror when he thinks of Peter's unjust proceedings.
