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 2. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

 3. Comport thyself in life as at a banquet. If a plate is offered thee, extend thy hand and take it moderately; if it be withdrawn, do not detain it. If it come not to thy side, make not thy desire loudly known, but wait patiently till it be offered thee. Use the same moderation towards thy wife and thy children, toward honours and riches.

 4. Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.

 5. Eat to live, not live to eat.

 6. Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

 7. Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

 8. Fortify yourself with moderation; for this is an impregnable fortress.

 9. He knows to live who keeps the middle state.

10. He who would keep himself to himself should imitate the dumb animals, and drink water.

11. Health consists with Temperance alone.

12. Health is a gift, but you have to work to keep it.

13. Health is no other (as the learned hold) But a just measure both of Heat and Cold.

14. Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

15. Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

16. Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

17. Health, beauty, vigour, riches, and all the other things called goods, operate equally as evils to the vicious and unjust, as they do as benefits to the just.

18. Heaven's way is indeed like the bending of a bow. When the string is high, bring it down. When it is low, raise it up. When it is excessive, reduce it. When it is insufficient, supplement it. The Way of Heaven reduces the excessive, And supplements the insufficient...

19. Her name is Health: she is the daughter of Exercise, who begot her on Temperance. The rose blusheth on her cheeks, the sweetness of the morning breatheth from her lips; joy, tempered with innocence and modesty, sparkleth in her eyes and from the cheerfulness of her heart she singeth as she walketh.

20. He's a Fool that makes his Doctor his Heir.

21. In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

22. It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

23. Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

24. Kill neither men, nor beasts, nor yet the food which goes into your mouth. For if you eat living food, the same will quicken you, but if you kill your food, the dead food will kill you also. For life comes only from life, and from death always comes death... And our bodies become what your foods are, even as your spirits, likewise, become what your thoughts are...Eat nothing, therefore, which a stronger fire than the fire of life has killed. Wherefore, prepare and eat all fruits of trees, and all grasses of the fields, and all milk of beasts good for eating. For all these are fed and ripened by the fire of life; all are the gift of the angels of our Earthly Mother. But eat nothing to which only the fire of death gives savour, for such is of Satan.

25. Men have made a virtue of moderation to limit the ambition of the great, and to console people of mediocrity for their want of fortune and of merit.

26. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

27. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

28. Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

29. Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

30. Moderation is the key of lasting enjoyment.

31. Moderation is the secret of survival.

32. Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.

33. Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

34. Never hurry; take plenty of exercise; always be cheerful, and take all the sleep you need, and you may expect to be well.

35. Nor love, nor honour, wealth nor power, Can give the heart a cheerful hour When health is lost, be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

36. Objection, evasion, distrust and irony are signs of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.

37. Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.

38. People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

39. Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady.

40. Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

41. Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

42. Safety lies in the middle course.

43. Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities; enlightenment, the greatest happiness.

44. Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.

45. Temperance and labour are the two best physicians of man; labour sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess.

46. Temperance is reason's girdle, and passion's bride, the strength of the soul, and the foundation of virtue.

47. The blessings, O man! of thy external part, are health, vigour, and proportion. The greatest of these is health. What health is to the body, even that is honesty to the Soul.

48. The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

49. The common ingredients of health and long life are: Great temperance, open air, Easy labour, little care.

50. The first wealth is health.

51. The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable. ... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

52. The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

53. The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

54. The requisites of health are plain enough; regular habits, daily exercise, cleanliness, and moderation in all things - in eating as well as in drinking - would keep most people well.

55. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

56. The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.

57. There is a mean in all things; and, moreover, certain limits on either side of which right cannot be found.

58. There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

59. There is moderation even in excess.

60. To hold and fill to overflowing Is not as good as to stop in time. Sharpen a knife-edge to its very sharpest, And the edge will not last long. When gold and diamonds fill your hall, You will not be able to keep them. To be proud with honour and wealth Is to cause one's own downfall. Withdraw as soon as your work is done. Such is Heaven's Way.

61. To learn moderation is the essence of sound sense and real wisdom.

62. To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.

63. To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

64. True happiness springs from moderation.

65. Use no medicine in an illness Incurred through no fault of your own. It will pass of itself.

66. Use, do not abuse; nether abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

67. What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

68. When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

69. Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.

70. Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering - an image of death.