We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845
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There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCHe is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCThe three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCDo you suppose it possible to know democracy without knowing the people?
—Xenophon, c. 370 BCThe law is not the same at morning and at night.
—George Herbert, c. 1633Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920