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"The man who runs after fortune" is the shortened title of La Fontaine's fable, L'homme qui court après la fortune et l'homme qui l'attend dans son lit (The fortune-seeker and the layabout, VII.12).[1] It is one of the few that is of La Fontaine's own invention but there are verbal echoes of other works. The title in the present tense points to the general lesson discussed in the prologue. The fable relates how an ambitious man suggests to his friend that they leave their small town together to seek their fortune. When his friend replies that he prefers to stay at home, the man departs to take up a position at Court. Not finding favour there, he next leaves to trade in the Orient but is no more successful. But when he gives up his pursuit and returns home at last, he find his friend in bed and Fortune sitting outside the door.

  1. ^ Elizur Wright translation

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