The Art of Living Long |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 26
Page 14
... youth decay , Half dried and withered through excess , Till , nursed by virtue's milder ray , Thy green age grew to fruitfulness . Thou sawest life's barque on troubled seas Long tossed ; care's clouds thy skies o'ercast ; But calm ...
... youth decay , Half dried and withered through excess , Till , nursed by virtue's milder ray , Thy green age grew to fruitfulness . Thou sawest life's barque on troubled seas Long tossed ; care's clouds thy skies o'ercast ; But calm ...
Page 34
... youth and vigor , and lamented the resistless strides of premature old age . A simple diet was almost exclusively the nourishment of the oldest peoples of Syria , Egypt , Greece , and , in their most glorious days , of the Romans ; and ...
... youth and vigor , and lamented the resistless strides of premature old age . A simple diet was almost exclusively the nourishment of the oldest peoples of Syria , Egypt , Greece , and , in their most glorious days , of the Romans ; and ...
Page 63
... youth or his strong constitu- tion and perfect stomach , will not take proper care of himself , loses a great deal , and every day is exposed , in consequence of his intemperate life , to sickness and even death . For this reason I ...
... youth or his strong constitu- tion and perfect stomach , will not take proper care of himself , loses a great deal , and every day is exposed , in consequence of his intemperate life , to sickness and even death . For this reason I ...
Page 70
... youth of other men ; since it is free , by the grace of God , from all the perturbations of the soul and the infirmities of the body , and is not subject to any of those troubles which woefully torment so many young men and so many ...
... youth of other men ; since it is free , by the grace of God , from all the perturbations of the soul and the infirmities of the body , and is not subject to any of those troubles which woefully torment so many young men and so many ...
Page 71
... youth only , just as tragedy is the work of old age ; the former , because of its grace and joyousness , is more in harmony with the early years of life , while the melancholy character of the latter is better suited to old age . Now ...
... youth only , just as tragedy is the work of old age ; the former , because of its grace and joyousness , is more in harmony with the early years of life , while the melancholy character of the latter is better suited to old age . Now ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
16th century able ancient Angelo Beolco appetite architecture artists arts attain beautiful blessing body born Caterina cause century Church Codevigo constitution Cornaro family Cornaro Palace custom Daniel Barbaro death delight diet diseases disorders doge doge of Venice doth eminent enjoy Euganean Hills excess exercise experience Falconetto famous follow the temperate fortune gardens Giorgio Cornaro Giovanni Grand Canal habits happy honor hope humors illustrious infirmities intellect intemperance kind King of Cyprus known labor learned less live LOUIS CORNARO Luvigliano Mæcenas Marco Cornaro mind nature never noble observed old age orderly and temperate Padua perfect health physician pleasure portico preserve quantity Queen of Cyprus reason Republic Republic of Venice Rome rule Ruzzante sensuality sickness sleep soul spirits stomach Temanza thee things thou thought tion Titian treatise true Venetian Venice villa virtue wine wish writing youth
Popular passages
Page 208 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 168 - Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Page 118 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 124 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Page 120 - So as there is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.
Page 120 - Heraclitus saith well in one of his enigmas: "Dry light is ever the best." And certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
Page 137 - Entertain hopes; mirth rather than joy; variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them ; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.
Page 24 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens ; to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many ; either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority...
Page 136 - 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...
Page 133 - Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the Deity ; and without it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.