There is a fable of an eagle which could out fly another, and the other eagle didn’t like it. The envious eagle saw a sportsman one day, and said to him, “I wish you would bring down that eagle.” The sportsman replied that he would if he only had some feathers to put on his arrow. So the eagle pulled one out of his wing. The arrow was shot, but didn’t quite reach the rival eagle; it was flying too high. The envious eagle pulled out more feathers, and kept pulling them out until he lost so many that he couldn’t fly. The sportsman then turned around and killed him. The envy of the eagle caused his own downfall. Even so, envy can cause us to stumble and fall if we are not careful.
