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I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet /

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

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Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus /

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Gautama Buddha /

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

Carl Gustav Jung /

Health is the primary duty of life.

Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest /

Healthy is who can't recall.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Theodor W. Adorno

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'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

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Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

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.

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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Charles Baudelaire

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

Gustave Flaubert

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Jean de La Bruyere

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

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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche