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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Hippocrates. (c. 460–c. 370 B.C.)
 
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    Life is short and the art long. 1
          Aphorism i.
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    Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. 2
          Aphorism i.
 
Dionysius the Elder. (c. 430–367 B.C.)
 
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    Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
          Frag. 6.
 
Plautus. (c. 254–184 B.C.)
 
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    What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours. 3
          Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 48. (329.)
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    Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired.
          Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 88. (367.)
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    These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad.
          Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 111. (392.)
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    He whom the gods favour dies in youth. 4
          Bacchides. Act iv. Sc. 7, 18. (816.)
 
Note 1.
See Chaucer, Quotation 52. [back]
Note 2.
See Shakespeare, Hamlet, Quotation 179.

For a desperate disease a desperate cure.—Montaigne: Chap. iii. The Custom of the Isle of Cea. [back]
Note 3.
See Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Quotation 37. [back]
Note 4.
See Wordsworth, Quotation 148. [back]