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At home the man eats enough for three people, and here he heedlessly scatters his energy to the winds.
En casa, el hombre come por tres y aquí lo tira desconsideradamente por los suelos.
"The man eats like a pig," said Sempronia, "and the woman snoops everywhere, then pretends to be a halfwit when I catch her at it."
—El hombre come como un cerdo —dijo Sempronia— y la mujer curiosea por todas partes y cuando la descubro se hace la tonta.
In other lands, when a man eats to his fullest day after day, that man becomes fat…sleepy…piggish.
En otros países, cuando un hombre come sin restricciones día tras día, se vuelve gordo… dormilón…, se pone hecho un cerdo.
In brief, man eats, drinks, marries, watches, plays, lives under a roof, rides, walks, or remains still with the sole aim of driving out their contraries and, in general, all other anxieties.
Para resumir, el hombre come, bebe, se casa, mira, juega, vive bajo un techo, cabalga, camina o se queda quieto con el solo propósito de alejar sus contrarios, y, en general, todas las demás ansiedades.
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