"Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor."

"Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor."

Hunger that persuades to evil.
[Lat., Malesuada fames.]

Hunger that persuades to evil.
[Lat., Malesuada fames.]

Obliged by hunger and request of friends.

Obliged by hunger and request of friends.

Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.

Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.

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.

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.]