This post was originally written by SASSYandsisters.
الصياد واللؤلؤة
كان صياد يصيد سمك في نهر، فرأى في يوم من الأيام صدَفَة جميلة تلمع في الماء فظن أنها جوهرة لها قيمة عالية و كان في شبكته سمكة فتركها و رمى نفسه في الماء ليأخذ الصَدَفة. فلما أخرجها وجدها فارغة، فندم لأنه ترك السمكة و طَمِعَ في الصَدَفة. و في اليوم التالي ذهب إلى مكان أخر من النهر و أنزل شبكته في الماء فوقعت فيها سمكة صغيرة، و رأى بجانب السمكة صَدَفة فلم ينتبه لها و تركها . فمر صياد أخر و أخذ الشبكة فوجد فيها لؤلوة تساوي مالا كثيرا
[لؤلؤة = A pearl]
[صياد = Hunter/ Fisherman (in this case)]
[طَمِعَ = the act of being greedy]
[تساوي = (she) is equal to / يساوي = (he) is equal to]
The Fisherman and the Pearl
There was a fisherman fishing fish on a river, and one day he saw a beautiful shell shining in the water and so he thought it was a gem of high value and there was a fish in his net so he left it and threw himself into the water to take the shell. When he brought it out, he found it empty, and regretted letting go of the fish and taking greed upon the shell. The next day, he went to another place on the river and lowered his net into the water and a small fish fell into it, and he saw a shell next to the fish so he didn’t concentrate on the fish and let go. Another fisherman passed by and took the net and found a pearl inside it that was worth a lot of money.
The END.
Moral of the story? …. Well it’s kind of obvious! There’s two actually:
Don’t be greedy
Learn from your mistakes
Or in Arabic:
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لا تكن طماع
تعلم من أخطائكAny others? 
That’s the second tale from Kalila and Dimna, though it’s quite short, it’s very valuable… Who else votes to show it to every president in the world? ;p
Bravo to anyone who managed to read some of the Arabic 
- Sorry for the left to right problem :S