How the ass answered the fox.

He (the ass) replied, “Know that you are speaking (just) the reverse (of the truth), (for) woe and bane come to the soul from cupidity.

No one was (ever) deprived of (spiritual) life by contentment; no one was (ever) made a (spiritual) king by covetousness.

(The daily) bread is not withheld (even) from pigs and dogs: this rain and (these) clouds are not earned by Man.

Just as you are pitiably enamoured of the daily bread, so the daily bread is enamoured of its consumer.