“The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.” ShouldBodyHonestyClothesOrdinaryIncreaseSimplicityNeglectModestyLackingDazzlingApparelNiceties Author:Ambrose
“I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination. And soon I was in the throes of a pervasive hypochondria.” IfsKindBodyFeltNormalOddEmptinessLackingDetachmentFrailClumsyFragilityNumbnessCoordination Book:Darkness visible: a memoir of madness Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness
“Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.” IfsBodyPleasureFoodCookingWineCulinaryLackingModerationStrengtheningDetrimental Author:Pliny the Elder