“We have been created, not to eat and drink but to come to the knowledge of God. "The just man," Scripture says, "eats and fills his soul; but the belly of the wicked is ever in want," ever hungry with a greed that cannot be quenched.”
Clement of Alexandria, 3th c. — The Instructor Book 2
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25The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
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23Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
24He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.