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    Socrates, oh the title is too short

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    Socrates, oh the title is too short Empty Socrates, oh the title is too short

    Post by chris c Fri Aug 14 2015, 20:50

    Stolen from a blog comment, and attributed probablyto Diogenes

    >>He used to say that he most enjoyed the food which was least in need of condiment, and drink which made him feel the least hankering for some other drink ...
    >>He took only so much food as he could eat with a keen relish; and, to this end, he came to his meals so disposed that the appetite for his meat was the sauce to it. Every kind of drink was agreeable to him, because he never drank unless he was thirsty. If he ever complied with an invitation to go to a feast, he very easily guarded, what is extremely difficult to most men, against loading his stomach to excess. Those who were unable to do so, he advised to be cautious of eating when they were not hungry, and of drinking when they were not thirsty; for he
    said that those were the things that disordered the stomach, the head, and the mind
    >> . . . with endurance of toil for thy character; never art thou weary whether standing or walking, never numb with cold, never hungry for breakfast; from wine and from gross feeding and all other frivolities thou dost turn away.(from Aristophanes, The Clouds). [Does the "never hungry for breakfast" mean that Socrates tended to skip breakfast?]
    >> [And as for Socrates’ state of health as a result of all this] He was so orderly in his way of life that on several occasions when pestilence broke out in Athens he was the only man who escaped infection.

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