一個過路人趕了很久的路，餓極了，筋疲力盡地倒在井邊睡著了。就在他差一點要掉到井裏的時候，命運女神出現了，對他說： “親愛的先生，你趕快醒來吧！如果你不小心掉入了井裏，那麼我就要承擔保護不力的罵名了。因為人類總是把災難歸咎於我，而從不檢討自己的行為。 ”
每個人都應該把命運掌握在自己的手裏。
A Traveler wearied from a long journey lay dowigue，on the very brink of a deep well. Just as he was about to fall ier， Dame Fortu is said，appeared to him and waking him from his slumber thus addressed him，“Good Sir，pray : for if you fall ihe blame will be thrown on me，and I shall get an ill name among mortals；for I .nd that mee their calamities to me，however much by their own folly they have really brought them on themselves.”
Everyone is more or less master of his own fate.