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 soul, curing it of improper emotions, false...
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Neel Burton
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.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.
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Paul Farmer
Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea, and the yellow-fever mosquito. Civilizations have retreated from the plasmodium of malaria, and armies have crumbled into rabbles under...
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Hans Zinsser
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.
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Elizabeth Bradley
