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Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1833

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

—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989

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

—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348

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

—Agnes Repplier, 1929

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

—Susan Sontag, 1963

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

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

—Cotton Mather, 1693

The sick man is the parasite of society.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889

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

—George W. Bush, 2005

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

—Samuel Johnson, 1750

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2020

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

—Muhammad, c. 630

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

—Hans Zinsser, 1935