The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
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I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.
More Avicenna Quotes
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The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
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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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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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There are no incurable diseases – only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs – only the lack of knowledge.
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A horse is simply a horse.
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Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.
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I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.
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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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The different sorts of madness are innumerable.
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As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
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