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

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

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

There are no such things as incurables; there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

There are no such things as incurables; there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of read more

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

Some remedies are worse than the diseases.

Some remedies are worse than the diseases.

A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.

A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.

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 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.