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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)

391. THE WOLF, THE RAVEN AND THE RAM
Perry 670 (Romulus Ang. 49)

A wolf once saw a raven sitting on a ram. The wolf sighed deeply and said, 'That raven is a happy fellow, born under a lucky star! Wherever he sits, whatever he says, whatever he does, nobody criticizes him in any way. But if I were to clamber up on a ram like that, anyone who saw me would start shouting and hurry to chase me away -- as if they had the ram's best interests at heart!'
Moral. The unjust man is envious of anyone else's good fortune. Even if he is aware of his own failings, he nevertheless feels sorry for himself when he sees others enjoying the things he cannot have.


Source: Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura Gibbs. Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
NOTE: New cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.