That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
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An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.
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That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
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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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Width of life is more important than length of life.
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Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?
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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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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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A horse is simply a horse.
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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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In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.
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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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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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I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.
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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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As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
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