Aesop's Fables

A father had one son and one daughter, the former remarkable for his good looks, the latter for her extraordinary ugliness. While they were playing one day as children, they happened by chance to look together into a mirror that was placed on their mother’s chair. The boy congratulated himself on his good looks; the girl grew angry and could not bear her Brother’s self-praise, interpreting everything he said (and how could she do otherwise?) as a slight on herself. She ran off to her father to get revenge on her Brother and spitefully accused him of having, though he was a boy, made use of something that belonged only to girls. The father embraced them both and, bestowing his kisses and affection impartially on each, said, “I wish you would both look into the mirror every day: you, my son, so that you may not spoil your beauty by bad conduct; and you, my daughter, so that you may make up for your lack of beauty by your virtues.”