Once a prince was eating,a fly came in through the window and alighted on his food. He could have killed the fly easily,but instead idly watched it and admired its iridescent wings.The next day it came again,this time as a large as a butterfly. " Do not harm it," the prince said to his courtiers; " there is enough food for both of us and see how beautiful its wings have become! " The third day it had grown as large as a bat and the prince became alarmed as he saw it take all his drink. He ordered all windows and doors to be closed so that it might not enter again. The fourth day,it was the size of a hawk; it broke through a window and entered as before,and this time it devoured all the food on the table. " Put iron bars across the windows," he commanded,thoroughly alarmed, " that I may eat and drink and not die." But the next day the attendants heard the twisting of bars and the shattering of glass and then a scream and rushing in they found the prince dead on the floor and marks of the beak and talons of a vulture on the throat of the prince.
At first the prince could have killed the fly but at last the vulture killed him.
In the beginning you may overcome an inclination to do wrong,in the end the inclination becomes so strong that it overcomes you.
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