“It is a mark of want of intellect to spend much time in things relating to the body, as to be immoderate in exercises, in eating and drinking, and in the discharge of other animal functions.”

I sat once with a young man who had eaten until his belly complained, then wasted the rest of the day trying to outrun his own breath on the track. He called this health; I called it slavery to hunger and thirst. We must eat only to sustain life, not to feed pride, for reason is our true master, not the stomach that demands its fill.