When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
Vauvenargues.
“To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.”
“There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.”
“The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.”
“Nothing but courage can guide life.”
“He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.”
“If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.”
“The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the so...”
“Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.”
“One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.”
“In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.”
“Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.”
“Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.”