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, and he said that other men live to eat, but he eats to live. Cf. CICERO
Rhetoricorum
IV. vii.
edere oportet ut vivas
,
non vivas ut edas
, one must eat to live, not live to eat.

1387
tr.
Higden's Polychronicon
(1871) III. 281
Socrates seide that meny men wil leve forto ete and drynke, and that they wolde ete and drynke .. forto lyve.
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1410
in
Secreta Secretorum
(1898) 67
I will ete so that y leue, and noght lyf that y ete.
1672
Miser
46
Eat to live, not live to eat; as the Proverb says.
1733
Poor Richard's Almanack
(May)
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
1912
Preserving Mr. Panmure
II. 85
I shall eat sufficient …But I eat to live; I don't live to eat.
1982
New York Times
31 Oct. iv. 18
Until recently the world was divided into those who eat to live and those who live to eat.