Launching from a top, an eagle snatched a lamb.
A raven saw it and tried to imitate the eagle, it was thrown on a ram, but with so bad knowledge in the art that its claws got entangled in the wool, and beating its wings to the maximum it was not able to be released.
When the shepherd saw what was happening, he took the crow, and cutting off the tips of its wings, he took it to his children.
His children asked him what kind of bird this was, and he told them:
"For me, it's just a crow; but he, he thinks himself an eagle."
Source: Aesop's Works (600 BC - 564 BC)
Know your nature. Don't spend time or effort in exercising for something in which you are not naturally predisposed to do. The eagle and the raven is a symbolic representation of two humans who, different as they are thanks to nature, try to do the same.
Nature makes men unequal in character, in which we are all unequal participants of a unique nature, and similar participants of a universal nature. Do not be fooled by similarity and develop in yourself what you are naturally predisposed for, what you are made for. That is our destiny, the maximum development of our human tendencies.
You can choose between being a servile imitation of something or someone more superior to you, or being a unique version of yourself, as all the greats of the past and the present have done. But for that it is necessary to do what that precious inscription of Delphi says; "know thyself."
Know thyself and you will discover your own eagle or crow nature if that is the case, and you will not need a greater model than that of the truth to develop your own skills and gain success and personal development. Know thyself is the moral of the story.
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