A half-famished Jackdaw seated himself on a fig-tree, which had produced some fruit entirely out of season, and waited in the hope that the figs would ripen. A Fox seeing him sitting so long and learning the reason of his doing so, said to him, “You are indeed, sir, sadly deceiving yourself; you are indulging a hope strong enough to cheat you, but which will never reward you with enjoyment.”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around the 6th century BCE, whose fables have been retold and translated across millennia. "The Jackdaw and the Fox" is among his shorter moral tales, using a simple animal exchange to deliver a pointed warning against self-deception and false hope.
