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

What a tiresome malady is that which forces one to preserve your health by a severe regimen.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Il y a des maladies extravagantes.
Qui consistent à vouloir ce que l'on n'a pas.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

To think too much is a disease.

All modern diseases are diseases of abundance. We punish ourselves by constantly entertaining our minds and bodies.

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.

..."That disease he has does an awful job on you. Your lungs fill up."

He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'.

[The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.

After all, the English are really too much. One can't live in that constipated fashion forever.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.