Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.

Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it.

It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please
your lordship, a kind of sleeping read more

This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please
your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson
tingling.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

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...

We are the carriers of health and disease--either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of read more

We are the carriers of health and disease--either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety.

[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry
them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, read more

[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.