Sickness makes health sweet. Hunger, food. Fatigue, rest.
Heraclitus, Fragment 104
Sickness makes health sweet. Hunger, food. Fatigue, rest.
Heraclitus, Fragment 104
The source
"Sickness makes health sweet. Hunger, food. Fatigue, rest." Heraclitus said it in Fragment 104. Translated by John Burnet, 1920.
"It is sickness that makes health pleasant; evil, good; hunger, plenty; weariness, rest"John Burnet, 1920, Fragment 104.
Who said it
Heraclitus (c. 535–475 BC). Philosopher of Ephesus who taught that everything flows. Only fragments of his book survive.
Questions
- Who said "Sickness makes health sweet. Hunger, food. Fatigue, rest."?
- Heraclitus (c. 535–475 BC). Source: Fragment 104.
- What is the original wording?
- It is sickness that makes health pleasant; evil, good; hunger, plenty; weariness, rest (John Burnet, 1920). Translated by John Burnet, 1920.
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