Aretaeus of Cappadocia Quotes
Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom.
Aretaeus of Cappadocia
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams;I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.
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After that, I was on the right track to the city centre, where there was enough light to distinguish people from letter boxes. The letter boxes, in my perhaps embittered view, had warmer personalities than the people.
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If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.
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Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.
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You say we are not one, you say truly there are two of us. Yes, there were two of us, but we were one. As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.
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When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple.
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Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom.
Aretaeus of Cappadocia
