A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, “What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains.”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around the 6th century BCE, whose fables have been retold across cultures for over two thousand years. "The Fox and the Mask" is among his more concise moral tales, using a single clever observation to skewer the value of beauty without intelligence. His fables remain some of the most widely read short stories in the world.
