From my youth, I have sometimes kept out of the way at meals; either to sharpen my appetite against the next morning (for, as Epicurus fasted and made lean meals to accustom his pleasure to make shift without abundance, I, on the contrary, do it to prepare my pleasure to make better and more cheerful use of abundance); or else I fasted to preserve my vigour for the service of some action of body or mind: for both the one and the other of these is cruelly dulled in me by repletion;
Gaztarodanik, inoiz egin gabe uzten nuen bazkariren bat: edo neure gosearen zorrozteko biharamunerako, zeren, Epikurok baraur eta bazkari eskasak egiten zituen bezala bere atseginaren ohitzeagatik ugaritasunik gabe bizi zedin, nik, aitzitik, neure atseginaren hezteko bere eginbeharra hobeki egin zezan eta nasaikiago balia zedin ugaritasunaz;