Voice of the Day: Peter of Celle

When the stomach hears the voice of insistent hunger, it confuses necessity and pleasure in a deceptive tangle. It is a rare person who can erect a wall or divider to distinguish in [one's] appetite between necessity and excess.

- Peter of Celle
The School of the Cloister

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