Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax

What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

The belly has no ears.