Someone asked Epictetus, "How can a person eat in a way that pleases the gods?" He answered: "If you eat justly and contentedly, with balance and self-control and in an orderly way, won't that please the gods? But here's the real test: when you ask for warm water and your servant doesn't hear you, or brings lukewarm water instead, or isn't even in the house — if you don't get angry or explode with rage, isn't that what really pleases the gods?"
When some one asked, How may a man eat acceptably to the gods, he answered: If he can eat justly and contentedly, and with equanimity, and temperately, and orderly, will it not be also acceptable to the gods? But when you have asked for warm water and the slave has not heard, or if he did hear has brought only tepid water, or he is not even found to be in the house, then not to be vexed or to burst with passion, is not this acceptable to the gods?