This is based on La Fontaine's fable, The Fox, The Wolf and The Well. The most important part i think is
“You fool, now that you know your end is near;
you always fall for what you desire or what you fear!”
One evening a fox, who was as hungry as a dog,
happened to see the round reflection of the moon in
a well, and he believed it to be a fine cheese. There
were two pails which alternately drew up the water.
Into the uppermost of these the fox leapt, and his
weight caused him to descend the well, where he at
once discovered his mistake about the cheese. He
became extremely worried and fancied his end
approaching, for he could see no way to get up
again but by some other hungry one, enticed by the
same reflection, coming down in the same way that
he had.
Two days passed without any one coming to the
well. Time, which is always marching onward, had,
during two nights, hollowed the outline of the silvery
planet, and Reynard was in despair.
At last a wolf, parched with thirst, drew near, to
whom the fox called from below, "Comrade, here is
a treat for you! Do you see this? It is an exquisite
cheese, made by Faunus from milk of the heifer Io.
If Jupiter were ill and lost his appetite he would find
it again by one taste of this. I have only eaten this
piece out of it; the rest will be plenty for you. Come
down in the pail up there. I put it there on purpose
for you."
A rigmarole so cleverly told was easily believed by
the fool of a wolf, who descended by his greater
weight, which not only took him down, but brought
the fox up.
We ought not to laugh at the wolf, for we often
enough let ourselves be deluded with just as little
cause. Everybody is ready to believe the thing he
fears and the thing he desires.
-A La Fontaine
This is based on La Fontaine's fable, The Fox, The Wolf and The Well. The most important part i think is
“You fool, now that you know your end is near; you always fall for what you desire or what you fear!”