Food for thought
In every one of us there are two guiding and rulingprinciples, which lead us whither, they will।One is the natural desire of pleasure; the other is anacquired opinion, which aspires after the best.Sometimes the one, sometimes the other conquers.When opinion by the help of reason leads us to thebest, the conquering principle is called temperance,but when, desire, which is devoid of reason, rules inus and drags us to pleasure, that power of misrule iscalled excess. Now excess has many names, and many members and manyforms, and any of these forms when very marked gives aname, neither honourable nor creditable, to the bearerof the name. The desire of eating which gets thebetter of the higher reason and the other desire iscalled gluttony and he who is possessed by it iscalled glutton.