This is a favorite quote of Lenin: The eagle sometimes flies lower than the chicken, but the chicken can never fly higher than the eagle.

This sentence comes from krylov's Fables.

The general idea of this fable is that the eagle flew high in the sky, rested on the low barn, and then flew to another barn. When a crested hen saw it, she felt deeply. Why should eagles be respected? If I want to, I can fly between the grain drying rooms. Let's not be fools in the future, thinking that eagles have more noble families than us, and they fly as low as chickens.

The pigeon was disgusted with this statement and replied: sometimes the eagle does not fly as high as the chicken, but the chicken will never fly in the clouds! Krylov's conclusion is, "comment on genius, don't look for their shortcomings, but see their advantages and be good at understanding the height they have reached.

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Other similar fables:

1. Crows and foxes

There is a big tree in the forest, where crows live. There is a hole under the tree and a fox lives in it.

One day, a crow took a piece of meat and stood in a tree to rest. The fox saw it. The fox is greedy and wants to get the meat from the crow's mouth. Because the crow has meat in its mouth on the branch, the fox can't get it under the tree.

The coveted meat makes the fox unwilling to give up easily. It rolled its eyes and said, "Dear crow, how are you?" The crow didn't answer.

The fox had to compensate for his smiling face and said, "Dear crow, how is your child?" The crow looked at the fox, but still didn't answer.

The fox wagged his tail and spoke for the third time: "Dear crow, your feathers are really beautiful. Sparrows are far behind you. You have a good voice. Everyone loves to hear you sing. Why don't you sing a few words? "

The crow was very proud when she heard that I had a good voice, and only you fox loved to listen to my singing, so she sang happily. No sooner had I opened my mouth than the meat fell out of it. The fox picked up the meat and went into the hole, leaving only the crow to "sing" there.

2. Farmers and Rivers

Bankruptcy caused by the flooding of streams and small rivers really makes farmers unbearable. They went to complain to the big river, because the water from the stream and the small river flowed into the big river. There are many things to report on them! The winter wheat field was washed away, the mill was washed down and floated away, the animals were drowned, and the losses were simply countless!

The river flows so quietly and so solemnly, and the big city stands on its banks. I have never heard that it will play such a prank. Therefore, the river will definitely clean up these streams. The farmers are talking to each other like this.

what was the result? When we approached Okawabe, we didn't know that half of the property was floating on this big river. Don't bother, the farmers just watched it, then everyone looked at each other, shook their heads and went home.

When they left the river, they said, "Why should we waste time? The river and the river have swallowed up our property, but we can't get any fair judgment by suing the river."