No time for minor fights when life is in danger — Mythoi

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No time for minor fights when life is in danger.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Choices: important and unimportant work. · view the constellation · filed as J371

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Filed under Choices: important and unimportant work.

1 finer motif beneath it

Bull refuses to fight goat. Bull being pursued by lion tries to go into cave. Goat refuses to let him in. Bull must go on, for with lion pursuing he has no time to fight goat

Filed beside it

King ridiculed for inventing trifle of musical instrument but praised for constructing a great mosque

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