A Spider's Wisdom
"So what?" said the spider to the fly. "It's only natural that you die in this time and in this form."
The fly buzzed weakly in the spider's mouth and said with its final breath, "I feed you just once and then I am gone. But in your fatal form, you eat a hundred times. Where is the justice in that?"
The spider replied, "In other times and in other forms, I myself died a hundred deaths. I fed and fueled the very web which I now spin and rule. One must perish in order to thrive, die in order to live. I shall eat you today, and you will eat me tomorrow."
The fly buzzed weakly in the spider's mouth and said with its final breath, "I feed you just once and then I am gone. But in your fatal form, you eat a hundred times. Where is the justice in that?"
The spider replied, "In other times and in other forms, I myself died a hundred deaths. I fed and fueled the very web which I now spin and rule. One must perish in order to thrive, die in order to live. I shall eat you today, and you will eat me tomorrow."
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