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Medicine Quotes - Page 17

The greatest medicine is a true friend.

Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift, Lady Martha Giffard (1740). “The life and character of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679 to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679”, p.309

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.93, Princeton University Press

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.

"Annals", Book VI, Chapter XLVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p.502-04, 1922.