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“What else is the help of medicine than love?”
Paracelsus
(1493–1541) Swiss physician and alchemist
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.”
Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685–1750) German late baroque era composer
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
Louisa May Alcott
(1832–1888) American novelist
Variant: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”
Frida Kahlo
(1907–1954) Mexican painter
“You will hear it for yourself, and it will surely fill you with wonder.”
Marco Polo
(1254–1324) Venetian explorer and merchant noted for travel to central and eastern Asia
Source: The Travels
“I have not told half of what I saw.”
Marco Polo
(1254–1324) Venetian explorer and merchant noted for travel to central and eastern Asia
Non ho scritto neppure la metà delle cose che ho visto.
On his death-bed, when urged to retract "some of the seemingly incredible statements he made in his book", as quoted in The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian (J. M. Dent, 1926), p. xxiv. Quote in Italian from Imago mundi seu Chronica (c. 1330) by Jacopo d'Acqui, as reported in the bibliographic note to Marco Polo: Storia del mercante che capì la Cina (2009) by Vito Bianchi.
“Who knows?
Better times may come to those in pain.”
Forsan miseros meliora sequentur.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 153 (tr. Fagles)
“It's easier to build strong children then repair broken men.”
Frederick Douglass
(1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Variant: It is easier to build strong men, than to repair broken ones.
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass