The Jewish Wisdom Database

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.

Better healthy and poor than rich and poorly.

There is no wealth like health.

If there is one thing superior to life, it is health.

A healthy man instinctively loves life.

When a part of your body aches and causes you pain, you feel intense hatred towards it.

Medicaments have multiplied just as diseases have.

What is the worst sickness? A bad neighbor.

Better a pauper sound and sober than a rich man sick and sorry.

Pleasant words are like honeycombs--- sweetness to soul and health to body.

Sayings of the wise are like a tonic wine, pleasure to the spirit and cure to the flesh.

A sick man, when he recovers from an illness, returns to the days of his youth.

Great is repentance, for it brings healing to the world.

Repentance for sinners is like medicine for maladies.

It is the Sabbath, and one should not weep, for healing is nigh to come.

Be not slow to visit the sick!

Six things augur well for the sick: sneezing, sweating, looseness of bowels, nocturnal pollution, sleeping and dreaming.

Never call a halt to your visiting of the sick!

Who visits a sick friend lessens his pain a little.

The sick man who lies to the doctor deceives only himself.

The sick man who wants to eat is better than the healthy man who cannot bear food.

Sickness of the spirit is worse than sickness of the flesh.

Who never was sick cannot realize the value of health.

The soul has health and sickness just as the body has.

The soul is the light of the body.