Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.

Eat few Suppers, and you'll need few Medicines.

Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.

If a Man casually exceeds, let him fast the next Meal, and all may be well again, provided it be not too often done; as if he exceed at Dinner, let him refrain a Supper, &c.

An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.