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

—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960

Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.

—Leslie Jamison, 2020

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

—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

—Muhammad, c. 630

We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.

—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

—Latin proverb

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

—Anton Chekhov, 1904

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

—Susan Sontag, 1963

Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BC

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.

—Charles Lamb, 1833

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

—Helen Keller, 1936

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

—Hans Zinsser, 1935