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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)

376. THE LIONESS AND THE WILD BOAR
Perry 414 (Syntipas 11)

A bull found a lion lying asleep and gored him with his horns until he was dead. The lion's mother showed up and wept bitterly over her son. When the wild boar saw the mother lion lamenting, he stood at a safe distance and said, 'Oh, how many people are also weeping at this very moment because their sons have been killed by you lions!'
This fable shows that what you have done to others will likewise be done to you, according to the same measure.

Source: Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura Gibbs. Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
NOTE: New cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.