Book 5 — CHAPTER VI.

that half true may be all false.

As the sayings, It is day, It is night, are wholly justifiable if viewed disjunctively,1 but not if viewed together, even so at a feast, to pick out the largest portion for one’s self may be justifiable, if we look to the needs of the body alone, but is unjustifiable if viewed as it concerns the preservation of the proper community in the feast. Therefore, in eating with another person, remember not to look only at the value for the body of the things that are set before thee, but to preserve also the reverence due to the giver of the feast.