Prevod

(Even when several people join together to write a work, if they lack knowledge, it will turn out as worthless as though a single ignoramus had written it.)

Though the whole cannot be good unless its parts are good, and a body is worth little when each member has little worth, many who think nothing of works by individuals 5 regard them with instant respect if those same people work together. A land Snail came out at dusk to take the evening air, 10 and saw a Tortoise passing on his travels. “No need to hurry, brother,” he said, mocking the pace at which he moved, and adding other pointed jibes. 15 Farther on, he met ten Tortoises together, leaving a little pool to seek a larger one. And then the Snail, 20 faced with so august a company, left the way clear, saying only, “Please, gentlemen, go ahead.” The solitary Tortoise he had held in contempt; 25 but the ten together he treated as persons of distinction.