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• 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

  Matter, Strive, Cures

  Avicenna (1999). “The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)”, Abjad Book Designers & Builders

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• Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Suffering

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.252

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• memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Soul, Eating

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.209, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

  Martin Luther

  Worry, Soul, Body

  Table-Talk 'Of Temptation and Tribulation'

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• To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

  James Hillman

  Eye, Angel, Invisible

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• Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Men, Legacy

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.

  William John Locke

  Life, Antidote, Remedy

  William John Locke (2008). “The Glory of Clementina”, p.188, Wildside Press LLC

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• If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fitness, Health, Numbers

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• Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Soul, Physicians, Flesh

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.171, Wordsworth Editions

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• I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our moral and spiritual maladies and deal with causes rather than with consequences, with the disease rather than with symptoms.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Believe, Roots

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• Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Headache, States

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• In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren, and since these are institutional maladies, they will not be easy to overcome. While much remains uncertain, we can assure ourselves, with fair confidence, that future generations will not forgive us our silence and apathy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Grandchildren, Silence, Forgiving

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• Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

  Charles Wagner

  Evil, Intellectual, Rehabilitation

  Charles Wagner (1903). “Youth”

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• A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Retirement, Healthy, Wish

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1942). “Cicero: De oratore ...”

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• There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

  Harvey Cushing

  Death, Science, Flesh

  The Medical Career and Other Papers 'Medicine at the

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• Thi is the malady onf the humans, that they can hold on to that which is fleeting and of little consequence and call it everlasting. They focus on awards, achievements, and whatc an be done in their own strength while the Almighty desires to work trough their weakness.

  Chris Fabry

  Awards, Focus, Achievement

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• There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Night, Reality

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• I will say in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Race, Adoption, Choices

  "Fictional 'Mothers' Reveal Facts Of A Painful Adoption Process". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 22, 2013.

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• Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Misery, Cures

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

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• The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.

  David Hume

  Theologian, Seems, Bigotry

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• The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Cancer, Stupidity

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.26, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Art, Reality, Love Is

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.415, Faber & Faber

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• It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

  Pythagoras

  War, Ignorance, Passion

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• Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Hate, Animal

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything about it. Was there a psychological term for that? Was there a disease that involved an intense desire to die, but no will to go through with it? Couldn't talk and thoughts of suicide be considered a whole malady of their own, a special subcategory of depression in which the loss of a will to live has not quite been displaced by a determination to die?

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Suicide, Determination, Pain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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