He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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

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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

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

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

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

’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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