The Two Goats

The Two Goats is a short fable by Aesop that emphasizes the theme of compromise. It tells the story of two goats who unexpectedly meet while crossing a narrow bridge. Instead of agreeing to let one pass first, both were stubborn and fought to cross at the same time. This eventually results in both goats tumbling into the river below, highlighting the consequences of pride and lack of compromise.

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Two Goats, frisking gayly on the rocky steeps of a mountain
valley, chanced to meet, one on each side of a deep chasm through
which poured a mighty mountain torrent. The trunk of a fallen
tree formed the only means of crossing the chasm, and on this not
even two squirrels could have passed each other in safety. The
narrow path would have made the bravest tremble. Not so our
Goats. Their pride would not permit either to stand aside for the
other.

One set her foot on the log. The other did likewise. In the
middle they met horn to horn. Neither would give way, and so they
both fell, to be swept away by the roaring torrent below.

It is better to yield than to come to misfortune through
stubbornness.
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