Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
Variants
Disease occurs in a household, or in a life, just as it does in a body.
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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