Letter 115: To the Doctor Theodorus.
Letter 115: On Want
[1] To the Doctor Theodorus
Scarcity of food is a good forced upon us. Someone else might even scoff at the idea, but that is not permitted to you, the admirer of Hippocrates , who defined want as the mother of health.
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