Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
Seneca the YoungerWe should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.
Seneca the YoungerA king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.
Seneca the Younger