Socrates on His Dietary Needs

Posted on August 15, 2020 | Leave a comment

“The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.”

Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers

Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

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