Most men die of their remedies, not of their diseases.

What destroys one man preserves another.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.

A thousand ills require a thousand cures.

A pharmacist in the Rue de Vaugirard, absorbed in bottling leeches and obviously a figment of Rene Clair's imagination, paused long enough to patch me up grudgingly, and I went into a brasserie hard by for a restorative.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.