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.
AVICENNAIt 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.
AVICENNAThe different sorts of madness are innumerable.
AVICENNAThere are no incurable diseases – only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs – only the lack of knowledge.
AVICENNAWidth of life is more important than length of life.
AVICENNANow 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.
AVICENNAThose 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.
AVICENNAIs it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?
AVICENNAAn ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.
AVICENNAThe knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
AVICENNAThe more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
AVICENNAAs to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
AVICENNALeeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.
AVICENNAMedicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.
AVICENNAThe world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
AVICENNAThat whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
AVICENNAA horse is simply a horse.
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