• I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

    Marcus Tullius Cicero: I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.
    "De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", II. 28, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 381-82,