This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.

is rooted in his gluttony.

Gluttony kills more than the sword