伊索寓言：守財奴

A Miser, to make sure of his property, sold all that he had had converted it into a GREat lump of gold, which he hid in a hole in the ground, and went continually to visit and inspect it. This roused the curiosity of one of his workmen, who, suspecting that there was a treasure, when his master's back was turned went to the spot and stole it away. When the Miser returned and found the place empty, he wept and tore his hair. But a neighbor who saw him in this extravagant grief, and learned the cause of it, said: "Fret thyself no longer, but take a stone and put it in the same place, and think that it is your lump of gold; for, as you never meant to use it, the one will do you as much gold as the other.

一個守財奴，爲了確保他的財產，賣掉所有家當換成了一大塊金子，埋在一個地洞裏，並且不時地去查看，這引起了手下一個僱工的好奇。僱工猜測那裏肯定有寶貝，趁主人離開之際，他來到埋藏地點，把金子偷走了。當守財奴回來發現金子不翼而飛，便痛哭流涕，亂撮頭髮。一個鄰人見狀問明原由後說“你也別太痛苦了，拿一塊石頭再埋在原地，就當是那塊金子好了，因爲既然你永遠不想用它，那麼兩者不是一回事嗎”。
金錢的價值不在於擁有，而在於使用。

詞彙：

extravagant 過分的

thyself = yourself