“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
Thomas Browne book Religio Medici
Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
Thomas Browne book Religio Medici
Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
“Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
Detached Thoughts http://books.google.com/books?id=vVdSAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Marriage+is+the+cure+of+love+and+friendship+the+cure+of+marriage%22&pg=PA384#v=onepage, first published in Letters and Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 5 (1847)
Hippocrates (-460–-370 BC) ancient Greek physician
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
“For a desperate disease a desperate cure.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
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.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Friendship
Essays (1625)
Variant: Cure the disease, and kill the patient.
“Absence - that common cure of love.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“Absence, that common cure of love.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 10.
“Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
Karl Menninger (1893–1990) American psychiatrist