The constellation
J281 Quality of offspring preferred to quantity
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- Quality preferred to quantity · J280 entry
- 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
- "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
- Count only the waves before you. Fox sees man trying to count the waves. Advises him to count only those immediately before him and to pay no attention to those which have already passed · J311.1 entry