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Luigi Cornaro Quotes

d. 1566

Alvise Cornaro, often Italianised Luigi (1467 or 1464 – 8 May 1566), was a Venetian nobleman and patron of arts, also remembered for his four books of Discorsi (published 1583–95) about the secrets to living long and well with measure and sobriety.

Also known as: Alvise Cornaro

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Those men are most truly happy who keep their appetites in subjection.

A man cannot have a better guide than himself, nor any physic better than a regular life.

No man should be a perfect physician to any but himself.

A man can enjoy a terrestrial paradise after eighty, but it is not to be obtained, except by strict temperance in food and drink, virtues acceptable to God, and friends to reason.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Luigi Cornaro (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.