The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
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In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.
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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 different sorts of madness are innumerable.
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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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There are no incurable diseases – only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs – only the lack of knowledge.
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Width of life is more important than length of life.
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As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
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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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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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