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“Consider, gentle reader, that even as the flesh of an Emperor, or of any man, is constituted of what he eats, so then is an Empire, in bones and sinew, constituted of what it eats.

“Therefore, to maintain the health, and to avoid the manifestations of ill-nutrition, unseemly bloat, or the effects of poisons, great attention must be paid to the Imperial diet, and care taken to seek out the finest food both rich and healthy, and to eschew that which is neither.

“As below, so above.”

- Against the Bellipotency, pamphlet, pub. 4020