The Ass and His Masters.

AN ASS, belonging  to an  herb-seller  who  gave him too little food and too much work made  a  petition  to  Jupiter to be released from his present service and provided with another master.  Jupiter,  after warning  him that  he would repent his request, caused him to be sold to a  tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, finding that he had heavier loads to carry  and  harder  work  in the brick-field, he petitioned for another change of master. Jupiter,  telling  him  that  it  would  be  the  last  time that he could grant his request, ordained  that  he  be  sold to  a tanner. The  Ass  found that he had fallen into worse hands, and noting his master's  occupation, said, groaning:  "It would have been better for  me  to  have  been  either starved by the one, or to have been overworked by the other  of  my former masters, than to have been bought by my present owner, who will even after I am dead tan my hide, and make me useful to him."

He that finds discontentment in one place is not likely to find happiness in another.