The Oak and the Woodcutters

THE WOODCUTTER cut down a Mountain Oak and split it in pieces,making wedges of its own branches for dividing the trunk.  TheOak said with a sigh, "I do not care about the blows of the axeaimed at my roots, but I do grieve at being torn in pieces bythese wedges made from my own branches."  Misfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear.