Ridiculing a fat, overgrown man: “What use,” said he, “can the state turn a man’s body to, when all between the throat and groin is taken up by the belly?” When one who was much given to pleasures desired his acquaintance, begging his pardon, he said he could not live with a man whose palate was of a quicker sense than his heart.
Source:
Plutarch, John Dryden, and Arthur Hugh Clough. "Marcus Cato." Plutarch's Lives. New York: Modern Library, 2001. 464. Print.
Further Reading:
Ye Olde FPH