A Wizard, sitting in the marketplace, was telling the fortunes of the passers-by when a person ran up in great haste, and announced to him that the doors of his house had been broken open and that all his goods were being stolen. He sighed heavily and hastened away as fast as he could run. A neighbor saw him running and said, “Oh! you fellow there! you say you can foretell the fortunes of others; how is it you did not foresee your own?”
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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 millennia. "The Prophet" is a characteristic example of his style — a single, compact scene that delivers its moral punch through irony rather than instruction. Though debate continues about whether Aesop was a historical figure, the fables attributed to him remain among the most enduring short stories in world literature.
