How useful it is to see food and drink for what they really are! This is a dead fish. This is a dead bird. This is a dead pig. That expensive wine everyone praises? It's just grape juice. That fancy purple robe? It's sheep hair dyed with shellfish blood. Sex? It's just rubbing body parts together and releasing fluids with some muscle spasms — as Hippocrates put it.
How marvellous useful it is for a man to represent unto himself meats, and all such things that are for the mouth, under a right apprehension and imagination! as for example: This is the carcass of a fish; this of a bird; and this of a hog. And again more generally; This phalernum, this excellent highly commended wine, is but the bare juice of an ordinary grape. This purple robe, but sheep's hairs, dyed with the blood of a shellfish. So for coitus, it is but the attrition of an ordinary base entrail, and the excretion of a little vile snivel, with a certain kind of convulsion: according to Hippocrates his opinion.