Quote #7

Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use, be it great or be it small!

More from Peter Mere Latham

  1. We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise.
  2. Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
  3. The diagnosis of disease is often easy, often difficult, and often impossible.
  4. It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.
  5. Beware of language, for it is often a great cheat.
  6. Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine.
  7. Truth in all its kinds is most difficult to win; and truth in medicine is the most difficult of all.
  8. It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors.

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