Fable XXXI The Wolf and the Shepherds
We severely censure that in others, which we ourselves practise without scruple.
How apt are men to condemn in others what they practise themselves without scruple!
A Wolf, says Plutarch, peeping into a hut where a company of Shepherds were regaling themselves with a joint of mutton; Lord, said he, what a clamour would these men have raised if they had catched me at such a banquet!