Echoes

This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all Diseases and Miseries.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way.

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians of Hellas, because they are ignorant of the whole, which ought to be studied also; for the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

We have a given problem to solve. If we undertake the solution, there is, of course, always danger that we may not solve it aright; but to refuse to undertake the solution simply renders it certain that we cannot possibly solve it aright.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

To eat when you are sick is to feed your illness.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Grace under pressure.

What cannot be eschewed must be embraced

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.