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Disease is not of the body but of the place.

—Latin proverb

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

—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1600

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

—Richard Krause, 1982

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

—Anton Chekhov, 1904

Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.

—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

—Muhammad, c. 630

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

—Samuel Johnson, 1750

What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?

—Ovid, c. 10

Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.

—Guy R. Williams, 1975

Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.

—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913

Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

—Helen Keller, 1936