Epictetus. (c.A.D. 50c.A.D. 138). The Golden Sayings of Epictetus. The Harvard Classics. 190914. |
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| 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! | 1 |
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