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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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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I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.
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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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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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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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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 more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
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A horse is simply a horse.
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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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The different sorts of madness are innumerable.
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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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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 knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
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