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People said that man had changed: the weakness of people’s health no longer allows us to fast. Was it true? – Adalbert de Vogüé, To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience

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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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A fast is better than a bad meal. – Irish Proverb

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More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. – Mahatma Gandhi

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