Aesop's Fables

All the Goods were once driven out by the Ills from the common share that each of them had in the affairs of mankind, for the Ills, because of their numbers, had succeeded in taking possession of the earth. The Goods floated up to heaven and asked for a righteous vengeance on their persecutors. They begged Jupiter to free them from any further association with the Ills, since they had nothing in common and could not live together but were engaged in unceasing warfare, and to lay down an indissoluble law for their future protection. Jupiter granted their request and decreed that from then on the Ills should visit the earth in company with one another, but that the Goods should enter the dwellings of men one by one. That is why Ills abound, for they come not one by one but in troops, and by no means singly, while the Goods come from Jupiter and are given not to all alike but singly and separately, one by one, to those who are able to discern them.