#seas

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. ↗

— Plato

#change #direction #excess #generally #governments

They certainly give very strange names to diseases. ↗

— Plato

#certainly #diseases #give #names #strange

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. ↗

— Plutarch

#discord #disease #examine #harmony #health

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. ↗

— Plutarch

#better #proper #season #silence #speech

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#human #human race #point #race #recover

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life. ↗

— John Pomfret

#american life #bosnian #chinese #experience #korean

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alzheimer #any #atrophy #best #could

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. ↗

— Matthew Prior

#died #disease #i #last #last night

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#beautiful #brave #brief #butterflies #clever

Without money honor is merely a disease. ↗

— Jean Racine

#honor #merely #money #without