And I’d order abstemiously — an appetizer or lemon soup or a lamb chop, a salad and perhaps a dessert.

They should live abstemiously, exercise freely, keep the skin active by frequent bathing, the bowels open with fruits, and drink water in large quantities.

A similar outcry was, in later ages, raised by one of his opponents against Malebranche, who, like Epicurus, lived not merely temperately, but abstemiously.