How many men have been slain by impatience, fear, anxiety, and above all by medicine, men whom disease would have spared and time alone have cured? I shall be told that animals, who live according to nature, are less liable to disease than ourselves.
La tempérance et le travail sont les deux vrais médecins de l'homme: le travail aiguise son appétit, et la tempérance l'empêche d'en abuser.