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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hunger, Drink, Thirst
"De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", II. 28, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 381-82,
I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.