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

— Luigi Cornaro

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

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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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,
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The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend.

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A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

Petronius

Pharmacy is but a small part of physic; medical cannot be separated from moral science without reciprocal and essential mutilation.

John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan

A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

Douglas William Jerrold

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