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Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to fli

Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God. – Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. – Danish Proverb

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One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation. – Adalbert de Vogüé, To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience

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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency. – Plato

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In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed. – Herbert M. Shelton

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