A Quote by Honore de Balzac

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

Honore de Balzac

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Cure Evils Leave Let Us Public Quacks Statesmen Those Us

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Honore de Balzac
French - Novelist
May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

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

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

Sophocles

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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Anna Soubry

Those of us in public office and those of us who aspire to public office have a responsibility to be reasonable, fact-based, in our rhetoric and to not suggest things that are unreasonable, to whip up a lot of emotion in public, which can lead to government overreach, fear, suspicions, and prejudice.

Jeh Johnson

Those who don't fight evil hate those who do; and those who don't fight real evils make up little evils

Dennis Prager

Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now worshiped. Do not the quacks even direct small doses for children, larger for adults, and larger still for oxen and horses? Let us remember that we are to prescribe for the globe itself.

Henry David Thoreau

The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.

Maimonides

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

Luc de Clapiers

Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.

Sophia Lee

Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very often degrade it - leave all that and come with us in search of Love!

Josemaria Escriva

Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.

William Hurrell Mallock

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