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I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

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In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.
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Alone Existence God Himself
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
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Division Religion Smart World
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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Beginning Essential Establishment Knowledge Reason Science Study
There are no incurable diseases – only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs – only the lack of knowledge.
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Knowledge Perspective Sick Willing Worth
A horse is simply a horse.
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Animal Horse Simplicity
As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
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Essence Form Mental
That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
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Essence Existence Necessary
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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Body Drive Health Human Medicine
Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?
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Darkness Drink Fools
The different sorts of madness are innumerable.
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Different Madness Number
The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
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Brilliant Disappear Light Quick
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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Animal Content Day
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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Complete Knowledge Reason
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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Cure Leaving Nature Reveal
An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.
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Death Ignorance
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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Domination Earth Nature Transformation Virtue Water

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