Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Health
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Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.
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The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.
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Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.
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To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
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The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.
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It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
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Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.
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Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.
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Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.
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The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author
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