“Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.”

“Never curse an illness; better ask for health.”

“We must consider that wisdom is embedded in knowledge. Here is the list of the desires in order: Love, wealth, health, power and knowledge.”

“Preserving your health by too strict a diet is a tedious illness.”

“We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.”

“I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.”

“You must be ready to sacrifice your health if you wish to gain wealth. That is simply an unavoidable law of nature.”

“I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.”

“The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.”

“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.”