Then does men's life become one vast disease,
When once they seek their ills by ills to cure.

ἐνταῦθα μέντοι πάντα τἀνθρώπων νοσεῖ,
κακοῖς ὅταν θέλωσιν ἰᾶσθαι κακά.

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