The constellation
J280 Quality preferred to quantity
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● attested
The same sky, in words
beneath it
filed near
- Raven drowns his young who promise to aid him when he becomes old. He saves one who admits he will not help, because he will have to carry his own young · J267.1 entry
- Choice between flattering lies and unflattering truths · J267 entry
- Choice between short and dangerous or long and sure way. (Cf. J21.5.3.) · J266 entry
- Apparent beauty may be of the least importance. Ruler admires jewels's beauty but neglects to inquire about their marvelous virtues · J264 entry
- Quality of offspring preferred to quantity · J281 entry
- "Only one, but a lion". Lioness thus answers fox (hog) who twits her that she has only one cub · J281.1 entry
- The present preferred to the past · J310 entry
- Heed not the past · J311 entry