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• Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Self, Arrogance

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

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• A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Character, Evil, Despair

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• When you go to the hospital, there are so many medicines. You do not have to take all the medicines; just the ones that are needed for your malady. You do not have to eat all the medicines. Whatever kind of spiritual practices you sincerely want to do, you just take that medicine; do not collect all the other things.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Practice, Medicine

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• The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Soul, Body, Disease

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• If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.

  David A. Bednar

  Father, Frustrated, Would Be

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• There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Heart, Trying, Physicians

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• It's different for each individual. It's different when you talk about homosexuality. It's different when you talk about a malady like deafness. Everybody might have a different response to that and that's what makes it an interesting subject to throw in a movie.

  Famke Janssen

  Interesting, Different, Might

  "The Phoenix Rises as Famke Janssen and James Marsden Talk X-Men: The Last Stand". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 23, 2006.

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• We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Village, Want, Inertia

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.95, Rajpal & Sons

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• The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Soul, Body, Illness

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• What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

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• A study of the Great Malady; horror of home.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Home, Study, Horror

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

  Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

  Passion, Ideas, Excess

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• Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Life, Sleep, Sixteen

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• Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.

  Karl Marx

  Memories, Rude, Understanding

  Karl Marx (2008). “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, p.91, Wildside Press LLC

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• There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Physicians, Dull

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.801, Modern Library

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• Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.

  Margery Allingham

  Brother, Nice, Apology

  Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”

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• Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.

  Herman E. Daly

  Growth, Environmental, Physicians

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• The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Cutting, Men, Unhappy

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

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• I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than the condition they're supposed to treat. Once I even heard "heart failure" listed as a side effect, and I wondered how that happened. Heart failure sounds like a pretty major event to me, and if you're willing to risk heart failure in order to avoid the mild discomfort of some other condition, then may the gods shield you from harm, since you're obviously seeking it out.

  Kevin Hearne

  Heart, Order, Risk

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.1132, Del Rey

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• A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.

  Simon Pegg

  Running, Viruses, Why Not

  "The dead and the quick" by Simon Pegg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2008.

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• It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Self, Office

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• Tonight I am ugly. I have lost all faith in my ability to attract males, and in the female animal that is a rather pathetic malady . . . I don't care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual. What is it that makes one attract others?

  Sylvia Plath

  Animal, Frustration, Feelings

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.16, Anchor

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• Your attitude is more important than the events happening around you. Artists develop a syndrome taught in art schools. It is a malady titled, 'Artistic Temperament'... rudeness, excuses, slovenliness, laziness, clutter, addictions, non-commercial attitudes, un-professionalism... and a good reason for failure.

  Jack White

  Art, Attitude, School

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• If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Ignorance, Class

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Health, Severe

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