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If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is
hunger; for drink, thirst.
[Lat., Socratem audio read more
I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is
hunger; for drink, thirst.
[Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum essa famem,
potionis sitim.]
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how read more
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Enough is as good as a feast.
With this there grows
In my most ill-compos'd affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I King,
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With this there grows
In my most ill-compos'd affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I King,
I should cut off the nobles for their lands,
Desire his jewels, and this other's house,
And my more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more, that I should forge
Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,
Destroying them for wealth.
Hungry bellies have no cars.
[Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]
Hungry bellies have no cars.
[Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]
The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.
The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.
It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.
It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.
A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's
wife may starve for hunger.
A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's
wife may starve for hunger.