
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
Source: Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love), Lines 91–92
Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
““The Left's delayed Russophobia is about a century too late.”—ILANA MERCER,”
“The Proof is Not In The Putin,” http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/16/the-cias-manchurian-candidate-narrative/ The Daily Caller, December 16, 2016
2010s, 2016
“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
“The remedy is worse than the disease.”
Of Seditions and Troubles
Essays (1625)
“It's never too late to start a new beginning”
"Believe"
2010s, Revival (2017)
“There are some remedies worse than the disease.”
Maxim 301
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.”
Remark (6 November 1605) as quoted in The Dictionary of National Biography Vol. 6 (1917); He is here invoking a version of a famous statement of Hippocrates, also translated as "Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
“Fear is the antidote to boredom: the remedy must be stronger than the disease.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)