"A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him."

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Source : Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

Vincent de Paul

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“One finds limits by pushing them.”
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