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...

Diseases desperate grown
By desparate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.

Diseases desperate grown
By desparate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.

That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.

That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.

He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured

He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured

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.]

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.

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

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

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 disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]

Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]