Sentences with phrase «virtues of short periods»

Even the great philosophers of antiquity like Plato, Seneca, and «The Father of Modern Medicine» Hippocrates, were extolling the virtues of short periods of abstinence from food.

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Vintage George Stevens comedy, dating from the brief period in which his deliberate style was a deepening virtue, stopping short of the ossification that cursed his later work.
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