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The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.

—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1833

In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.

—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348

I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

—Samuel Johnson, 1750

If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.

—Anton Chekhov, 1904

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

—Richard Krause, 1982

’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.

—Plautus, c. 180 BC

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

—Marianne Moore, 1935

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

—Muhammad, c. 630

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

—Latin proverb

If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.

—George W. Bush, 2005