Width of life is more important than length of life.
AVICENNAMedicine 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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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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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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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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An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.
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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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The different sorts of madness are innumerable.
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Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?
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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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I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.
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A horse is simply a horse.
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The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
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As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
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In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.
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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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