The Traveler And Fortune
Aesop Fable: The Traveler And Fortune
A traveler wearied from a long journey lay down, overcome
with fatigue, on the very brink of a deep well.
Just
as he was about to fall into the water, Dame Fortune, it is
said, appeared to him and waking him from his slumber
thus addressed him: "Good Sir, pray wake up: for if you fall
into the well, the blame will be thrown on me, and I shall
get an ill name among mortals; for I find that men are sure
to impute their calamities to me, however much by their
own folly they have really brought them on themselves."
Everyone is more or less master of his own fate.
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