At feasts, remember that you are entertaining two guests, body and soul. What you give to the body, you presently lose. What you give to the soul, you keep for ever. Epictetus. The Golden Sayings. Section 2. Number 178.
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| Painting from Pompeii, now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples), showing a banquet or family ceremony. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. |
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