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I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Avicenna

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
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Beginning Essential Establishment Knowledge Reason Science Study
An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.
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Death Ignorance
A horse is simply a horse.
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Animal Horse Simplicity
In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.
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Alone Existence God Himself
The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
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Brilliant Disappear Light Quick
When you do not know the nature of the malady, leave it to nature; do not strive to hasten matters. For either nature will bring about the cure or it will itself reveal clearly what the malady really is.
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Cure Leaving Nature Reveal
As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
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Essence Form Mental
Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.
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Animal Content Day
It is in the nature of water … to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; … it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue.
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Domination Earth Nature Transformation Virtue Water
Width of life is more important than length of life.
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Deep Life Size
I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.
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Life Preferance Size
That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
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Essence Existence Necessary
Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.
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Admit Burn Principle
Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?
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Darkness Drink Fools
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
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Division Religion Smart World
The different sorts of madness are innumerable.
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Different Madness Number

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

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