A hungry jackdaw had perched on a fig tree; but seeing that the figs were still green, it waited for them to ripen. A fox, seeing it lingering there endlessly, asked it the reason. When he was told, he said, "You are wrong, my friend, to attach yourself to a hope; hope knows how to feed one on illusion, but on food, no."
*Hope without action may feed the imagination, but it cannot satisfy real needs.Moral
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