The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs’.

A man and his wife owned a goose which laid a golden egg every day.
They considered themselves very lucky to possess such a rare bird,
and they began to wonder just how much gold the goose must have
inside it.

So they cut open the goose, killing it. However, to their

disappointment, they discovered that the inside of the bird was like
any other goose and was not made of gold. In killing the goose that
laid the golden eggs, they had deprived themselves of a regular
source of gold.

The moral of ‘The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs’ is fairly obviously
that greed is bad: if the man and his wife had not been motivated by
avarice, or greed for more gold, they would not have cut open the
goose and thus they would not have deprived themselves of a smaller,
though regular and steady and reliable, source of income from their
special bird.