A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Cure Fail Find Men Other Own Pretend Quacks Remedy

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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman - Statesman
106 BC - 43 BC

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

Charles Caleb Colton

Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

Thomas Kyd

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

Honore de Balzac

Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.

John Locke

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.

Thomas Carlyle

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

Jean Cocteau

There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.

George Herbert

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

Theodore White

A man who knows a thing, who is aware of a given danger, and sees the possibility of a remedy with his own eyes, has the duty and obligation, by God, not to work 'silently,' but to stand up before the whole public against the evil and for its cure.

Adolf Hitler

Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now.

Terry Fox

Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere ... they will say that science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.