"This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion."
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"It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen."
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"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out."
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"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."
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"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world."
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"Be not sick too late, nor well too soon"
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"Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy."
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"Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things."
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"Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures."
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"Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast."
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"There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor."
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"To live without love, compassion, or any other spiritual value creates a state of such severe imbalance that every cell yearns to correct it. Ultimately, that is what lies behind the onset of disease; the body is sending a message that something lacking in the present—an imbalance existing somewhere—has given rise to highly visible, unarguable, physical symptoms."
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"Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body."
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"If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control."
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"This is not about trade, no one is a stronger supporter of capitalism and trade than I am. This is about sovereignty and whether a country has the right to set its own public health policies."
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"All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone."
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"I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's."
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"Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside."
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"Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them."
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"For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera."
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