“Or is it this: To feed on the acorns and grass of knowledge, and for the sake of truth to suffer hunger in one's soul?”
“Feed your brain with knowledge Feed your heart with loveFeed your soul with religion”
“O Virgins, sacrosanct, if I have ever, for your sake, suffered vigils,cold,, and hunger, great need makes me entreat my recompense.”
“Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.”
“Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.”
“I will willingly abandon this miserable body to hunger and suffering, provided that my soul may have its ordinary nourishment.”