One of the wise men was forbidding his son from overeating, saying that fullness makes people sick.

He said: 'O father! Hunger kills people; have you not heard that witty people have said that dying from fullness is better than suffering from hunger?'

He said: 'Keep moderation; eat and drink, but do not waste.'

Do not eat so much that it comes out of your mouth

Nor so little that your soul departs from weakness

Although the pleasure of the soul is in the existence of food

Food brings suffering when it is more than necessary

If you eat refined sugar with affectation, it will harm you

And if you eat dry bread with patience, it will be like refined sugar

They asked a sick person: 'What does your heart desire?' He said: 'That my heart desires nothing.'

When the stomach becomes disordered and abdominal pain arises

All remedies are useless