Nasreddin Hodja used to stand in the street on market-days, to be pointed out as an idiot. No matter how often people offered him either a large or a small coin, he always chose the smaller piece.
One day a kindly man said to him, “Hodja, you should take the bigger coin. Then you will have more money, and people will no longer laugh at you.”
“That may be true,” said Hodja, “but if I take the larger one, people will stop offering me money, to prove I am more idiotic than they are. Then I would have no money at all.”