Hey folks, Which of Aesops Fables represents the statement 'wanting

>>9308267
This may not be the angle you're going for, but Machiavelli's Discourses had a couple of comments touching on "your reach exceeds your grasp" etc.

>Nature has so constituted men that, though all things are objects of desire, not all things are attainable; so that desire always exceeds the power of attainment, with the result that men are ill content with what they possess and their present state brings them little satisfaction. Hence arise the vicissitudes of their fortunes.

>Human appetites are insatiable, for by nature we are so constituted that there is nothing we cannot long for, but by fortune we are such that of these things we can attain but few. The result is that the human mind is perpetually discontented, and of its possessions is apt to grow weary. This makes it find fault with the present, praise the past, and long for the future; though for its doing so no rational cause can be assigned.

Maybe that might help. Best of luck!

>>9308267
Gee what was even the point of having Aesop for a slave when his entire torso was barely over a foot long?

>>9308267
look at those tiny shoulders on aesop

fucking greeklet

Check Rousseau's New Heloise : "Woe to him who has nothing left to desire… We enjoy less what we obtain than what we hope for, and we are happy only before being happy."

>>9308267
list of morals here
http://www.aesopfables.com/aesopsel.html

you could twist a couple of them to fit