<i>There were some fish, still alive, who were being cooked in a frying pan in boiling oil. One of the fish said, &quot;Brothers, let us flee from this place, so that we will not perish.&quot; Then they all at the same time jumped out of the frying pan and fell into the burning coals. Stricken thus by even greater pain than before, they cursed the plan they had adopted, and said, &quot;By how much more terrible a death are we now going to die.&quot;</i><p>-- Laurentius Abstemius