The Fir Tree and the Bramble

A fir tree boasted to the bramble, "You are useful for nothing at all, while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses."

The bramble replied, "You poor creature, if you would only remember the axes and saws that are ready to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a bramble, not a fir tree."

Better to have poverty without care than to possess riches filled with worry.