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

—Helen Keller, 1936

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

—Samuel Johnson, 1750

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

—Adelle Davis, 1951

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

—Marianne Moore, 1935

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

—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913

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

—Guy R. Williams, 1975

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

—Richard Krause, 1982

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

—Muhammad, c. 630

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

—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

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

—Anton Chekhov, 1904

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

—David Riesman, 1937

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

—Susan Sontag, 1963