“Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.”
Under Fire (1916), Ch. 1 - The Vision
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French novelist 1873–1935Related quotes
“For a desperate disease a desperate cure.”
Book II, Ch. 3. The Custom of the Isle of Cea
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Cure the disease and kill the patient.”
Of Friendship
Essays (1625)
Variant: Cure the disease, and kill the patient.
“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
Inside Information p. 4
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
“Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.”
Financial Sense http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/steer/2007/0805.html Also quoted in “Covert Operation”, Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, (Aug. 30, 2010)
7:87
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
Source: The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception