Echoes

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

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

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

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.

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

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.

Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are.

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.

Anyone who lives a sedentary life and does not exercise, even if he eats good foods and takes care of himself according to proper medical principles — all his days will be painful ones and his strength shall wane.

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.

Walking is man's best medicine.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

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