Disease Quotes
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“The remedy is worse than the disease.”
“Vitiant artus ægræ contagia mentis.”
“Aëre non certo corpora languor habet.”
“Graviora quædam sunt remedia periculis.”
“Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.”
“Apoplexie, and Lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.”
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“But just disease to luxury succeeds,
And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.”
“That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.”
“Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.”
“Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.”
“O, he's a limb, that has but a disease;
Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.”
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“Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est morbus qui a capite diffunditur.”
“D'ogni pianta palesa l'aspetto
Il difetto, che il tronco nasconde
Per le fronde, dal frutto, o dal fior.”
“I'll forbear;
And am fallen out with my more headier will,
To take the indispos'd and sickly fit
For the sound man.”
“This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship; a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.”
“A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.”
“[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies.”
“Two out of three child deaths in Africa and South-east Asia are due to just six diseases – tuberculosis, malaria, HIV/AIDS, measles, pneumonia and diarrhoea.”