Width of life is more important than length of life.
AVICENNA
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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Width of life is more important than length of life.
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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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Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?
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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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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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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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The different sorts of madness are innumerable.
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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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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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A horse is simply a horse.
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