The Peach and The Quince (from the Fables of Mkhitar Gosh)
At court once the peach started reroaching the quince, saying: "You are of yellow appearance and are difficult for people to eat. I, however, am attractive and easily eaten." [The quince] said: "You are a complete hypocrite and a deceiver of people. You seem sweet while being eaten, but on entering the stomach you cause much damage. Now I am yellow since I am the fellow-sufferer of the sick, going to see [them] and doing away with the illness unlike you who is expelled by them." This fable expresses the thought that hypocrites always reproach honest [people] as having the rudest morality and being merciless, while decreeing themselves as goodnatured and sharers of grief. However, true words are medicine for the spirit, though at first they appear the contrary. Sharing pain with them, they eliminate the illness.
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