Apophthegmata Laconica

Having made wealth unenviable, since nobody could make any use or show of it, he said to his intimate friends, What a good thing it is, my friends, to show in actual practice the true characteristic of wealth, that it is blind! [*](Ibid. (45 C).)

He took good care that none should be allowed to dine at home and then come to the common meal stuffed with other kinds of food and drink. The rest of the company used to berate the man who did not drink or eat with them, because they felt that he was lacking in self-control, and was too soft for the common way of living.