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Saturday, October 27, 2018

Epictetus, Golden Sayings 35


When we are invited to a banquet, we take what is set before us; and were one to call upon his host to set fish upon the table or sweet things, he would be deemed absurd. 

Yet in a word, we ask the Gods for what they do not give; and that, although they have given us so many things!

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