Malady Quotes
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
Octavian Paler -
Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
William Osler
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If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
Seneca the Younger -
Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away.
Oscar Wilde -
...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.
Alberto Moravia -
When you do not know the nature of the malady, leave it to nature; do not strive to hasten matters. For either nature will bring about the cure or it will itself reveal clearly what the malady really is.
Avicenna -
...as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A malady Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.
Charles Robert Maturin -
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subject to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, my consciousness would be faced with a blank, I would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent or perhaps that some malady of the brain was hindering its development.
Marcel Proust -
The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.
William John Locke -
Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas