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According to popular tradition, if the donkey is humble, the horse is proud, because of its humility, hard work, obedience and patience. But most often it has been designated, first by the Fathers of the medieval church, as a symbol of ignorance, stupidity, stubbornness, laziness and lechery, to such an extent that the image has been assigned to man (Duchet Suchaux and Pastoureau 2002).