In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.
AVICENNAThose 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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Width of life is more important than length of life.
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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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A horse is simply a horse.
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As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
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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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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.
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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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That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
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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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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 world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
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The different sorts of madness are innumerable.
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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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