Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
Source: Essays, Nature (Second Series), 1844.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.