id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt horace-works_133 horace-works_133 .txt text/plain 1707 75 75 What and how great is the virtue to live on a little( this is no doctrine of mine, but what Ofellus the peasant, a philosopher without rules and of a homespun wit, taught me), learn, my good friends, not among dishes and splendid tables; when the eye is dazzled with the vain glare, and the mind, intent upon false appearances, refuses[ to admit] better things; but here, before dinner, discuss this point with me. In the first place, you will enjoy good health; for you may believe how detrimental a diversity of things is to any man, when you recollect that sort of food, which by its simplicity sat so well upon your stomach some time ago. He who has used his mind and highswollen body to redundancies; or he who, contented with a little and provident for the future, like a Wise man in time of peace, shall make the necessary preparations for war? ./cache/horace-works_133.txt ./txt/horace-works_133.txt