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Chios, Greece
The stomach is not to be loaded, for there is nothing so hostile to thought as a full belly.
An immoderate diet is unhealthy, but a temperate one preserves strength.
Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, set forth tables of dead, stale bodies, and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived.
Abraham Lincoln·1860In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau·1762The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences.
Seneca·58 ADAs is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
