He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.

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

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

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

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

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

The sick man is the parasite of society.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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

All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.

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