Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are.

Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.

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Der Mensch ist, was er ißt. | Man is what he eats. | Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach, Die Naturwißensschaft und die Revolution [Natural science and the revolution] (1850), repeated in Das Geheimnis des Opfers, ober der Mensch ist was er ißt [The mystery of sacrifice, or man is what he eats] (1862) | You are what you eat. | Victor Lindlahr, You Are What You Eat: how to win and keep health with diet (1942).

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