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Diets
“I think it is healthier to eat more slowly and less, and to eat more often. But I want to make the most of appetite and hunger; I would take no pleasure in dragging out three or four puny meals a day, regulated as if I were taking medicine…Let us leave the daily diets to…
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Health and habit
“Health for me is maintaining my accustomed state without disturbance…I cannot be hurt by the use of things that I have been so long accustomed to.” III.13 Of experience (p.1008)
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Complaints
“It is cruelty to require of us so composed a bearing. If we play a good game, it is a small matter that we make a bad face. If the body finds relief in complaining, let it do so.” II.37 “Of the resemblance of children to fathers” (p. 699)
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Harmonious and uniform
“Those who want to split up our two principal parts and sequester them from each other are wrong. On the contrary, we must couple and join them together again. We must order the soul not to draw aside and entertain itself apart, not to scorn and abandon the body (nor can it do so except…