The modern world has little to learn from the ancient Greeks.
This is my favourite from the Fables of Aesop, as it seems to neatly sum up my life, especially the last ten years!
A number of flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, "O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves." Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.
Picture added 02.08.13