Absent Quote by Hippocrates

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our…

— Hippocrates

Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And…

— Hippocrates

The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for we neither…

— Khalil Gibran

There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to…

— William McFee

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

— Hippocrates

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers…

— Malcolm De Chazal

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their…

— Edmund Burke

The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed…

— George Eliot

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

— Michel de Montaigne

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

— Marcel Proust

Our mental state fuels our emotions, and our bodies reflect those emotions.

— Mandy Ingber

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain…

— Richard Steele