
“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
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)
“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“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.
“5738. Wickedness is its own Punishment, and many Times its own Cure.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 5354. Vice is its own Punishment, and sometimes its own Cure.
“Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.”
Under Fire (1916), Ch. 1 - The Vision
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
“If there is a cure to any disease, then why not a formula to become a genius?”