He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.

One must eat to live and not live to eat.

Life eats life to live.

We must eat to live and live to eat.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Thou should eat to live; not live to eat.

Eat to live, don't live to eat.

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work up an appetite for his dinner.

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, 'If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.'

Said Diogenes, 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.

At a feast, do not give a speech about how everyone should eat. Only eat as you should. Socrates never made a spectacle of himself or put on an air of authority. In philosophical conversations, follow his example — stay mostly silent; ask questions and listen intently. If anyone calls you ignorant and says you know nothing, be sure that you are now a true student of philosophy.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Il faut manger pour vivre, et non pas vivre pour manger.