
“… humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.”
Variant: humanity is a cancer on the body of the world
Source: Pretties
Source: The Healing Power of Water
“… humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.”
Variant: humanity is a cancer on the body of the world
Source: Pretties
“Diseases of the mind are more common and more pernicious than diseases of the body.”
Morbi perniciosiores pluresque sunt animi quam corporis.
Book III, Chapter III
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (45 BC)
“There are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and there cause serious diseases.”
Crescunt animalia quaedam minuta, quae non possunt oculi consequi, et per aera intus in corpus per os ac nares perveniunt atque efficiunt difficilis morbos.
Marcus Porcius Cato on Agriculture : Marcus Terentius Varro on Agriculture. W.D. Hooper & H.B. Ash. (translation). Harvard University Press, 1993. Bk. 1, ch. 12
De Re Rustica
Interview by Osmo Kiiha; quoted in Clarence Bass, Challenge Yourself: Leanness, Fitness & Health at Any Age https://books.google.it/books?id=FSfwAAAAMAAJ (C. Bass' Ripped Enterprises, 1999), p. 202.
“Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.”
Act III, sc. i.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Garden of Eden
“…my two chronic diseases of gluttony and satyriasis…”
Fiction, Tremor of Intent (1966)
Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939