As the proposition it is either day or it is night is of
great importance for the disjunctive argument, but for
the conjunctive is of no value,1 so in a symposium (entertainment) to select the larger share is of great value
for the body, but for the maintenance of the social feeling is worth nothing. When then you are eating with
another, remember to look not only to the value for the
body of the things set before you, but also to the value
of the behaviour towards the host which ought to be
observed.2
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