The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it,
therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
-- Of the Training of Children by Plutarch
Menenius Agrippa concluded at length with the celebrated fable It
once happened that all the other members of a man mutinied against
the stomach, which they accused as the only idle, uncontributing part
in the whole body, while the rest were put to hardships and the expense
of much labour to supply and minister to its appetites....