THE GOOSE THAT LAYS THE GOLDEN EGGS

“Once upon a time there was a couple of farmers who, one day,
discovered a solid golden egg in one of the nests where they raised
chickens.

The couple was observing that the bird produced such a prodigy day
after day, obtaining a golden egg every day.

Reflecting on what it was that made the chicken in question have

this ability, they suspected that it had gold insid.
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To check it out and get all the gold at once, they killed the
chicken and opened it up, discovering to their surprise that
inside the prodigious bird was the same as the others.

And they also realized that, in their ambition, they had put an
end to what had been making them rich.”

María Fernanda Rodríguez Muñoz

THE GOOSE THAT LAYS THE GOLDEN EGGS

This fable, associated with Aesop but also covered by authors

such as Samariaga or La Fontaine and which sometimes tells
us about a chicken and other times about a goose, teaches us
the importance of putting aside greed, since it can lead us to
lose what we have.

María Fernanda Rodríguez Muñoz