Sickness shows us what we are

Sickness shows us what we are

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through read more

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.