SENECA X LAD X LEX MESS 70 X LON X ALON

"As Seneca said: Our business is to live in accordance with Nature, and it is against Nature to torment one's body, to hate basic cleanliness, to seek out squalor and to eat food that is not merely cheap but disgusting and horrible.....  Philosophy requires frugality, not punishment; and frugality need not be drab