Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.

A wise man can be a fool in love.

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.

The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.

God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.

We are addicted to being the way we are

You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.