Sylla, who, guided by the apophthegms of Democritus, agreed with him that it is Fortune which spreads an ambitious table, but that Virtue...

Eat to live, and not live to eat. Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings. The Library of America. New York,...

All humans who are keen to surpass other animals had best strive with all their might not to pass through life without notice, like...

The stomach he called livelihood’s Charybdis. i.e. a whirlpool engulfing a man’s livelihood. Diogenes. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of...

those who labour sleep more sweetly and soundly than those who are laboured for, and could fail to see by comparing the Persians’ manner...

Marcus Cato:

Equipped with such means, the Roman patriciate and upper middle class passed with impressive speed from stoic simplicity to reckless luxury; the lifetime of Cato (234-149) saw the transformation almost completed. Houses became larger as families became smaller; furniture grew lavish in a race for conspicuous expense; great sums were paid for Babylonian rugs, for couches inlaid with ivory, silver, or gold; precious stones and metals shone on tables and chairs, on the bodies of

Appian describes how the Gauls Lost Rome Because of Gluttony:

For, mark you, stop admiring your clothes, and you are not angry at the man who steals them; stop admiring your wife’s beauty, and you are not angry at her adulterer. Know that a thief or an adulterer has no place among the things that are your own, but only among the things that are another’s and that are not under your control. If you give these things up and count them as nothing, at whom have you still ground to feel angry? But so long as you admire these things, be angry

Apophthegm of Solon

Socrates on gluttony: