“For a desperate disease a desperate cure.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book II, Ch. 3. The Custom of the Isle of Cea
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“(…) Just like a deficiency disease is cured through the supply of the missing factor, so are the diseases of living cured by a good dose of intelligent detachment (viveka-vairagya).”
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“Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.”
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine
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“Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.”
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