
“The remedy is worse than the disease.”
Of Seditions and Troubles
Essays (1625)
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“The remedy is worse than the disease.”
Of Seditions and Troubles
Essays (1625)
“There are some remedies worse than the disease.”
Maxim 301
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“All illegal narcotics are medicinal. Boredom is a disease worse than cancer.”
Drugs cure it, with little or no side effects if used as directed. Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile. You should be inventing new drugs is what you should be doing! Newer, crazier drugs... and more holes, that's what you ladies need!
Deadbeat Hero (2004)
“Anger is stronger than fear, stronger than sorrow.”
p 69 - Book one: The winds of change - The web of illusion
Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1980)
“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."