Medicine Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him.

— Michel de Montaigne

Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.

— Michel de Montaigne

As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.

— Michel de Montaigne

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?

— Michel de Montaigne

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

— Michel de Montaigne

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

— Michel de Montaigne

The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the…

— Michel de Montaigne

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to…

— Michel de Montaigne

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only…

— Michel de Montaigne

Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no…

— Michel de Montaigne

Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone…

— Michel de Montaigne

Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in…

— Michel de Montaigne

I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave his physicians strict…

— Michel de Montaigne

Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality;…

— Michel de Montaigne