A traveller, having made a long journey and finding himself worn out with fatigue, let himself sink down at the edge of a well and fell asleep. He was surely about to fall in, when Fortune, having come up to him, woke him and said, "Hey, friend! If you had fallen in, it is not your own carelessness, but me that you would have blamed for it."
People often blame fortune for misfortunes caused by their own carelessness.
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