Friday, September 16, 2022

On good humored stomach

 Bad bread!!! You say

But just wait

It will become good bread soon!

Hunger will make even a bad bread ,good

The most Delicious and finest of flavor


For that matter,  I must not eat

Until hunger bids me;

So I shall wait and shall not eat

Until I can either get good bread 

Or else cease to be squeamish about it!!!

(Good bread is here a metaphor for Luxury and superfluity)

Seneca

Letters from a stoic 


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