In the good life there must be a balance between different activities, and no one of them must be carried so far as to make the others impossible. The gormandiser sacrifices all other pleasures to that of eating, and by so doing diminishes the total happiness of his life.
Source: The Conquest of Happiness, 1930, chap.11: Zest
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