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The sick state is ingenious at discovering crimes.

[δεινὴ πόλις νοσοῦσ’ ἀνευρίσκειν κακά.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Auge [Αὐγῃ], frag. 267 (c. 408 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2014)]
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Nauck (TGF) fr. 267.
 
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You remember what people say when they are sick? What do they say? That after all, nothing is pleasanter than health. But then they never knew this to be the greatest of pleasures until they were ill.

Plato (c.428-347 BC) Greek philosopher
The Republic, Book 9
 
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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 104 (1955)
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