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"Remember, you must behave as you do at a banquet. Something is passed around and comes to you: reach out your hand politely and take some. It goes by: do not hold it back. It has not arrived yet: do not stretch your desire out toward it, but wait until it comes to you. In the same way toward your children, in the same way toward your wife, in the same way toward public office, in the same way toward wealth. But if when things are set in front of you, you do not take them but despise them, then you will not only share a banquet with the gods but also be a ruler along with them.''

A Stoic philosopher, Epictetus, offers this profound perspective in his Handbook. This timeless wisdom alludes to approaching life with measured restraint and gratitude, teaching us true contentment arises not from grasping at what we lack but from gracefully accepting what is offered in its due time.