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Single Idea 431

[from 'fragments/reports' by Heraclitus, in 13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 3. Subjectivism ]

Full Idea

Disease makes health pleasant and good, hunger makes satisfaction good, weariness makes rest good.

Gist of Idea

Health, feeding and rest are only made good by disease, hunger and weariness

Source

Heraclitus (fragments/reports [c.500 BCE], B111), quoted by John Stobaeus - Anthology 3.1.178

Book Reference

'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.32