The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605
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The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959
It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCOne is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbThe proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Put national causes first and personal grudges last.
—Sima Qian, c. 91 BC