The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.