Echoes

The food which a temperate man leaves upon his plate is more beneficial than that which a glutton eats.

An immoderate diet is unhealthy, but a temperate one preserves strength.

A person should not eat until his stomach is full. Rather, he should eat until he has consumed approximately three quarters of his fill.

Excessive eating is like a deadly poison to the body and is a principal cause of all illness.

I eat only what is enough to sustain my life. My food is bread, soup, an egg, and a little meat. And the amount I eat is no more than my body can easily digest.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

As long as a person exercises, exerts himself greatly, does not eat to the point of being overly full, and keeps his bowels soft, illness will not come upon him and his strength will increase.

One should not eat unless one is hungry, nor drink unless one is thirsty.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Abstinence is the nurse of the soul.

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

Those who are slaves to their appetites cannot preserve their reason, their memory, or their senses in their full vigour; for a full belly does not produce a fine mind.

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life: "Know thyself," and "Nothing too much;" and upon these all other precepts depend.

The stomach is not to be loaded, for there is nothing so hostile to thought as a full belly.

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

To eat when you are sick is to feed your illness.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Walking is man's best medicine.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live. And often this living nobly means that you cannot live long.