Fables [Aesopica], "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" (6th C BC) [tr. Jacobs (1894)] - Aesop | WIST Quotations
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear. Alternate translations: "The Difference betwixt a Court and a Country Life. The Delights, Innocence, and Security of the One, Compar'd with the Anxiety, the Lewdness, and the Hazards of the Other." [tr. L'Estrange (1692)] "Give me my barley-bread…
