Talk:The Satyr and the Traveller

Voltaire
Good to see the article started! I love those fables where the moral is just so askew! The obvious moral would be that there are moments even in everyday life where one action can apparently have two opposite results; inconsistency isn't necessarily a flaw. As Voltaire said: "The satyr who received a peasant into his hut should not have turned him out on seeing that he blew his fingers because he was cold; and afterwards, on taking the dish between his teeth, that he blew his pottage because it was hot. The man was quite right, and the satyr was a fool." Annielogue (talk) 4 June 2011 (UTC)

So that's why Chamfort called the fable 'visiblement une des plus mauvaises de La Fontaine'. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 17:48, 5 June 2011 (UTC)