499. Gluttony kills more then the sword.

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

The worst of feasts are marriage feasts, to which the rich are invited and the poor left out, and he who abandons the acceptation of an invitation, then verily disobeys God and His Prophet.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

It is better to die of hunger than to receive aid and be compelled to do things that are contrary to God's desire.

It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.

Where love is absent there can be no feast.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Disguised in a thousand forms, hidden under an infinite variety of masks, love starvation is even more rampant than food starvation. It invades all classes and all peoples. It occurs in all climates, on every social and economic level. It seems to occur in all forms of life. Love starvation wears the stony face of the disciplinarian or speaks in the hysterical voice of the zealot. It puts on the unctuous manner of the hypocrite or the ruthlessness of the ambitious power-seeker.

Enough is equal to a feast.

that the more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.