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Disease is not of the body but of the place.

—Latin proverb

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

—Marianne Moore, 1935

The best quarantine is hygiene.

—Richard D. Arnold, 1871

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

—Helen Keller, 1936

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

—Thomas Mann, 1924

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

—Jack London, 1912

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

—George W. Bush, 2005

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

—Agnes Repplier, 1929

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

—David Riesman, 1937

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

—Richard Krause, 1982

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

—Muhammad, c. 630

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1833

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2020