As the proposition, either it is day, or it is night,
has much force in a disjunctive argument, but none
at all in a conjunctive one; so, at a feast, to choose
the largest share is very suitable to the bodily appetite, but utterly inconsistent with the social spirit of
the entertainment. Remember, then, when you eat
with another, not only the value to the body of those
things which are set before you, but also the value of
proper courtesy towards your host.
The Works of Epictetus: His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments. Epictetus. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. translator. New York. Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1890.
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