Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Gustave Flaubert

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Good | Health | Stupidity |

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.

Health | Nothing |

Betty Fussell

The medical establishment, focusing on pathology and chemical treatment by drugs, has long equated diet with what’s put on hospital trays. Even today, when five of America’s major health problems – heart, liver, cancer, diabetes and cerebrovascular diseases – have been proved to be related to diet, just 23 percent of American medical schools require a course in nutrition, and many offer none.

Diet | Health | Heart | Problems |

Thomas Jefferson

Giving about two [hours], every day, to exercise; for health must not be sacrificed to learning. A strong body makes a strong mind.

Body | Day | Giving | Health | Learning | Mind |

Yukio Mishima

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill-health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Gloom | Health | Serenity | Work |

Muhammad, also spelled Mohammad, Mohammed or Mahomet, full name Muhammad Ibn `Abd Allāh Ibn `Abd al-Muttalib NULL

There are two benefits, of which the generality of men are losers, and of which they do not know the value, health and leisure.

Health | Leisure | Men |

Thomas Lickona, fully Thomas Edward Lickona

Schools cannot be ethical bystanders at a time when our society is in deep moral trouble. Rather, schools must do what they can to contribute to the character of the young and the moral health of the nation.

Character | Health | Society | Time | Society |

William Menninger, fully William Claire Menninger

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.

Health | Problems |

Boris Pasternak, fully Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just fiction, it’s a part of our fortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.

Body | Day | Fortune | Health | Life | Life | Majority | Misfortune | Nothing | Soul | Space | System |

Arab Proverbs

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

Health | Hope |

Ssemiao NULL

He who would take good care of his health should be sparing in his tastes, banish his worries, temper his desires, restrain his emotions, take good care of his vital force, spare his words, regard lightly success and failure, ignore sorrows and difficulties, drive away foolish ambitions, avoid great likes and dislikes, calm his vision and his hearing, and be faithful in his internal regimen. How can one have sickness if he does not tire his spirits and worry his soul? Therefore he would nourish his nature should eat only when he is hungry and not fill himself with food, and he should drink only when he is thirsty and not fill himself with too much drink. He should eat little and between long intervals, and not too much and not too constantly. He should aim at being a little hungry when well-filled, and being a little well-filled when hungry. Being well-filled hurts the lungs and being hungry hurts the flow of vital energy.

Care | Emotions | Energy | Failure | Force | Good | Health | Little | Nature | Regard | Soul | Success | Temper | Vision | Words | Worry |

Samuel Smiles

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Health | Industry | Knowledge | Study | Time | Wealth |

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Good | Health | Memory | Nothing |

Loring Tiffany Swaim

It has been increasingly evident, as pointed out by doctors everywhere, that physical health is closely associated with, and often dependent upon, spiritual health.

Health |