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“For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.”

Poverty Four Mankind Hundred Remedy Physicians Distress Plague Wisest Infallible Malady Ailments

Author:Ihara Saikaku

“Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us in a maze of madness and error. These are death, toil, and the ignorance of the future.”

Three Causes Mankind Ignorance Madness Errors Excited Remedy Toil Discontent Mazes Bewildered

Book:Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Understanding the Forces Behind Group Mentality, Thoughts and Actions

Source: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Understanding the Forces Behind Group Mentality, Thoughts and Actions

“If the case be such indeed, that all mankind are by nature in a state of total ruin, then, doubtless,the great salvation by Christ stands in direct relation to this ruin, as the remedy to the disease.”

Ifs States Christ Cases Mankind Disease Direct Relation Salvation Ruins Remedy

Book:Inquiry into the freedom of the will. The great Christian doctrine of original sin defended

Source: Inquiry into the freedom of the will. The great Christian doctrine of original sin defended

“The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.”

Humans Evil Violence Mankind Injustice Affair Ancient Rulers Remedy Scarce

Book:An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Edition

Source: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Edition

“Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.”

Mankind Ill Tolerance Remedy Discord

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire