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Disease is not of the body but of the place.

—Latin proverb

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

—Charles Lamb, 1833

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.

—Adelle Davis, 1951

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1833

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1902

The sick man is the parasite of society.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889

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

—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845

Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.

—David Riesman, 1937

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

—Ovid, c. 10

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

—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BC

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

—Marianne Moore, 1935

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

—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348