“For a desperate disease a desperate cure.”

“But physicians also cure more desperate maladies by harsh remedies, and a pilot, when he fears shipwreck, rescues by jettison whatever can be saved.”
Sed medici quoque graviores morbos asperis remediis curant, et gubernator, ubi nafraugium timet, iactura quidquid servari potest redimit.

“Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.”

“Cure the disease and kill the patient.”

“Love is the primary cure of all the diseases. But no one knows the cure of love.”

“(…) 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).”

“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”

“Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.”

“Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.”

“Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.”