“Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.”
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies.
Le Malade Imaginaire (1673), Act III, sc. iii
“539. All Men think their Enemies ill Men.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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The only cheap and universal cure.”
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The Mistress. For Hope; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 424.
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Ces malheureux rois,
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Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 318
Compare Ecclesiasticus 33:27 (KJV): "idleness teacheth much evil".
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Great causes and little men go ill together.”
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The Indian Annual Register Vol.1 (January-June 1939)
Max Eastman (1883–1969) American activist
Source: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 57
“All thinking men are atheists.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 2
