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

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

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

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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

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

I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.

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

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