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 Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
 [Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]  
 Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
 [Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.] 
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes read more
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...
 O, he's a limb that has but a disease:
 Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.  
 O, he's a limb that has but a disease:
 Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy. 
 Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
 [Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]  
 Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
 [Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.] 
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand read more
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
 I'll forbear;
 And am fallen out with my more headier will
  To take the indisposed and sickly read more 
 I'll forbear;
 And am fallen out with my more headier will
  To take the indisposed and sickly fit
   For the sound man. 
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
 Diseases desperate grown
 By desparate appliance are relieved,
  Or not at all.  
 Diseases desperate grown
 By desparate appliance are relieved,
  Or not at all. 
 Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
 [Lat., Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]  
 Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
 [Lat., Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]