“The remedy is worse than the disease.”
Of Seditions and Troubles
Essays (1625)
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In the Depths http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/depths.html, st. 3.
“Resist beginnings; the remedy comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.”
Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur
Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.
Source: Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love), Lines 91–92
Lecture I. §4.
A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four Parts (1836)