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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

— Sophocles

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

— George Santayana

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

— David Viscott

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

— Saint Basil

Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.

— Edward Bach

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

— Helen Keller

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

— Agnes Repplier

The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

— Maimonides

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

— Sophocles

✗Opposing Perspectives

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

— Plato