Chapter II 



PHYSICAL NEEDS 



"If you have so far mastered your appetite as to have 

 brought your body to coarse fare and to be well contented 

 with mere necessaries, do not glory in your abstemious way 

 of living. If you drink nothing but water, proclaim not 

 your own sobriety on every occasion. If you inure your- 

 self to hardship, do it for your own benefit, and not to at- 

 tract the admiration of the people. Let vainglorious fools 

 make their trials as public as they can; but know that all 

 affectations of this kind are utterly unworthy of a philoso- 

 pher." Epictetw. 



