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health

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

I've always enjoyed poor health.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.

The body is a sacred garment.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Health consists with temperance alone.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.

The first wealth is health.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

A woman's health is her capital.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.