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Gabriel García Márquez 218
Colombian writer 1927–2014Related quotes
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Variant translation: What cannot be cured by medicaments is cured by the knife, what the knife cannot cure is cured with the searing iron, and whatever this cannot cure must be considered incurable.
Aphorisms
“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”
Source: Nancy Hine The Depression Trap: Ten Ways to Set Yourself Free http://books.google.co.in/books?id=7PxT2AJS_H4C&pg=PA61, Red Raft Publishing LLP, 2008, p. 61
“What cannot be cured must be endured.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 15.
“The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.”
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
According to The Veterinarian (Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science) for 1851, edited by Mr. Percivall, this is Ben Jonson's "satirical definition of physic".
Misattributed
“6124. What cannot be cured,
Must be endured.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.”
Source: Invisible Monsters