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323.The Two Men Who Were Enemies

TWO MEN, deadly enemies to each other, were sailing in the same vessel. Determined to keep as far apart as possible, the one seated himself in the stem, and the other in the prow of the ship. A violent storm arose, and with the vessel in great danger of sinking, the one in the stern asked of the pilot which of the two ends of the ship would go down first.

The pilot answered that he supposed it would be the prow, and then the man said, “Death would not be grievous to me, if I could only see my enemy die before me.”

Too much of a good thing easily turns into something bad, and too much of a bad thing almost looks like a good thing.