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