“A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.”
Witter Bynner (1881–1968) American author
The Way of Life, According to Laotzu, 1944.
“If someone incessantly drops the word "life," you know he's a sick man.”
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
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“There is said to be hope for a sick man, as long as there is life.”
Aegroto dum anima est, spes esse dicitur.
Marcus Tullius Cicero Epistulae ad Atticum
Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus) Book IX, Letter X, section 3
Often paraphrased as: Dum anima est, spes est ("While there is life there is hope")
Compare: "While there's life there’s hope, and only the dead have none." Theocritus, Idyll 4, line 42; as translated A. S. F. Gow
“So long as there is life in the sick man, it is said that there is hope.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero Epistulae ad Atticum
Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus) Book IX, Letter X, section 3
Often paraphrased as: Dum anima est, spes est ("While there is life there is hope")
Compare: "While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none." Theocritus, Idyll 4, line 42; as translated A. S. F. Gow
Original: (la) Aegroto dum anima est, spes esse dicitur.
“You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.”
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“He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.”
James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
