Qui gravi morbo correpti dolores non sentiunt, iis mens aegrotat
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"yet I must conclude with that aphorism of Hippocrates, qui gravi morbo correpti dolores non sentiunt, iis mens aegrotat ; [they that are sick and yet feel no pain are sick in their minds ;] they need medicine not only to assuage the disease but to awake the sense. And if it be said that the cure of men's minds belongeth to sacred Divinity, it is most true : but yet Moral Philosophy may be preferred unto her as a wise servant and humble handmaid. For as the Psalm saith, that the eyes of the handmaid look perpetually towards the mistress, and yet no doubt many things are left to the discretion of the handmaid to discern of the mistress' will ; so ought Moral Philosophy to give a constant attention to the doctrines of Divinity, and yet so as it may yield of herself (within due limits) many sound and profitable directions."--The Advancement of Learning (1605) by Francis Bacon |
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"Qui gravi morbo correpti dolores non sentiunt, iis mens aegrotat" (they that are sick and yet feel no pain are sick in their minds) is a dictum by Hippocrates.