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They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live.

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Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathæna.

Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the "Nautilus" of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.

For it would be unbecoming, says Aristotle, to come to banquet covered in sweat and dust; for the true gentleman should neither be dirty nor be unwashed nor [Rejoice in mire], as Heraclitus says.

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