“Better be poor if healthy and fit than rich if
tormented in body. Health and strength are better than any gold, a robust body
than untold wealth. No riches can outweigh bodily health, no enjoyment surpass
a cheerful heart. Better death than a wretched life and everlasting rest than
chronic illness. Good things lavished on a closed mouth are like food offerings
put on a grave. What use is an offering to an idol which can neither eat nor
smell? How describe someone pursued by the Lord’s displeasure? He looks and
sighs like an eunuch embracing a pretty girl – how he sighs!” {Sirach 30:14-20}
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