Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer “Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.” Reason Medicine Yield ♥ 3
Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer “The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.” Men Order Medicine ♥ 3
Milan Kundera Writer “His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner desire. Insofar as it is possible to divide people into categories, the surest criterion is the deep-seated desires that orient them to one or another lifelong activity. Every Frenchman is different. But all the actors the world over are similar.” People Desire Medicine ♥ 3
Honore de Balzac Novelist “In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.” Horse Knowledge Medicine ♥ 3
Horace Mann Educator “Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.” Criticism Medicine Mercury ♥ 3
Lord Byron Poet, Novelist “Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer” Ends Medicine Physicians ♥ 3
