True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.