The tale of the thrushes and the owl by Leonardo Da Vinci contains an important moral addressed to those who enjoy the misfortunes of others.
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Do you know the story of the thrushes and the owl? It is a fairytale of Leonardo Da Vinci who, in addition to being a brilliant artist and scientist, was also a skilled narrator of tales and legends. Among these we find a short fable that has thrushes and an owl as protagonists and hides an important moral. Here is what the story tells:
"We are free! We are free!" cried the thrushes one day, seeing that the man had caught the owl. “Now the owl doesn't scare us anymore. Now we will sleep peacefully ”.
The owl, in fact, had fallen into a trap and the man had locked it up in a cage.
"Let's go see the owl in prison" said the thrushes, flying and singing around their opponent's cage. But the man had caught the owl with another purpose, namely that of catching thrushes.
In fact, the poor owl immediately made an alliance with its winner who, after having tied it by a leg, put it every day well on display on a support.
To see it, the thrushes rushed to the nearby trees, where man had hidden his deadly traps. And the thrushes, instead of losing their freedom like the owl, lost their lives.
The moral of the story
This simple tale by Leonardo Da Vinci holds a great moral. The story invites us, in fact, not to rejoice when someone we fear, even our worst enemy, loses freedom because the same thing or even something worse could happen to us, as happened to the thrushes who enjoyed fate. touched the owl. As Da Vinci explains, when the loser is important, it is very likely that he will become an ally or instrument of the victor; while those who depend on the defeated can become victims of a new master and, together with freedom, risk losing their lives as well. In short, rejoicing in the misfortunes of others does not lead to anything good.
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