The pangs of hunger drive away all sense of virtue and deprive people of patience. The gongues, that always love, delicacies, attract men towards them.
क्षुद् धर्मसंज्ञा प्रणुदत्यादत्ते धैर्यमेव च। रसानुसारिणी जिह्वा कर्षत्येव रसान् प्रति॥