XXXVII. How to Lose
We can joyfully long for the grapes we can't get and those we've lost.
"You can be invincible if you never enter a contest in which victory is not under your control." — Epictetus
The following Aesop's Fable is called The Fox and the Grapes. It goes like this...
A hungry fox saw some fine bunches of Grapes hanging from a vine that was trained along a high trellis, and did his best to reach them by jumping as high as he could into the air.