“Law and order are the medicine of the politic body and when the politic body gets sick, medicine must be administered.”
“Vitamins are medicine for not getting sick and going back to Heaven yet.”
“Arguing with one who will not accept facts is like administering medicine to the dead.”
“What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.”
“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other”
“Medicine is a golden goose that has to be killed because every time the goose lays a golden egg, someone gets sick or dead.”