Aesop's Tales/Beneath Heed

Beneath Heed is one of Aesop's tales.

The tale
A gnat alighted on a bull’s horn. After it had bode there a long time and felt like flying on, it asked the bull if he would like it to go now. ‘I didn’t heed when thou came,’ answered the bull, ‘and I shall not heed if thou goes.’

§ Some are so weak that they mean nothing whether they are there or not, for they can do neither good nor harm.