[3] Emerson.
[4] Solomon.
CHAPTER III.
HEALTH.
"Health is best for mortal man; next beauty; thirdly, well gotten wealth; fourthly, the pleasures of youth among friends."
SIMONIDES.
CHAPTER III
HEALTH.
But if there has been some difference of opinion as to the advantage of wealth, with reference to health all are agreed.
"Health," said Simonides long ago, "is best for mortal man; next beauty; thirdly, well gotten wealth; fourthly, the pleasure of youth among friends." "Life," says Longfellow, "without health is a burden, with health is a joy and gladness." Empedocles delivered the people of Selinus from a pestilence by draining a marsh, and was hailed as a Demigod. We are told that a coin was struck in his honor, representing the Philosopher in the act of staying the hand of Phoebus.