No. 238 (3 December 1711)
The Spectator (1711-1714)
“Diseases of the mind are more common and more pernicious than diseases of the body.”
Morbi perniciosiores pluresque sunt animi quam corporis.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Book III, Chapter III
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (45 BC)
John Diamond (doctor) (1934) Australian doctor
Source: The Veneration of Life: Through the Disease to the Soul (1999), p. 9
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Salon interview (1997)
Context: I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated.
“The control and prevention of diseases and epidemics should go beyond boundaries.”
Chen Shih-chung politician
Chen Shih-chung (2017) cited in " No WHA invite, but Taiwan's going anyway http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2017/05/10/497115/No-WHA.htm" on The China Post, 10 May 2017
Romain Gary (1914–1980) French writer and diplomat
Introduction to The Plague (1946) by Albert Camus, as translated in a 1962 edition.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, Quarantine Speech (1937)
Dante Alighieri book Vita Nuova
Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa...
e così esser l'un sanza l'altro osa
com'alma razional sanza ragione.
Source: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter XVI (tr. Mark Musa)
