“Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.”

— Athenaeus , book Deipnosophistae

VII, 11. Compare: "I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else", Samuel Johnson, in Life of Johnson (Boswell). 29 Vol. ii. Chap. ix. 1763.
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