Illness

• Illness tells us what we are. — Anonymous (Italian proverb)
• The patient must combat the disease along with the physician. — Hippocrates, Aphorisms
• Illness is not something a person has . It's another way of being. — Jonathan Miller, The Body in Question
• There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious. — Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: The Guermantes Way