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Some remedies are worse than the diseases.
Some remedies are worse than the diseases.
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of read more
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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.
We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal.
We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal.
Before the curing of a strong disease,
Even in the instant of repair and health,
The fit read more
Before the curing of a strong disease,
Even in the instant of repair and health,
The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave,
On their departure most of all show evil.
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves,
the fruit, or the flower.
[It., D'ogni read more
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves,
the fruit, or the flower.
[It., D'ogni pianta palesa l'aspetto
Il difetto, che il tronco nasconde
Per le fronde, dal frutto, o dal fior.]
Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.
That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.
