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. 600
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BCYou never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
—Thomas Traherne, c. 1670What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905