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October 22, 2007
care for human life
From my early youth I persistently held to this purpose – that I should make it my duty to care for human life. The study of medicine seemed to point more clearly to such a career than did the study of law, as being more appropriate to the end I had in view, and as of more common concern to all the world in every age. I deemed medicine a profession of sincere character than law, and a pursuit relying rather upon reason and nature’s everlasting law, than upon the opinion of men.
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I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men- although the sum total of men’s learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination.
Cardan - Book of My Life
Posted by amin at October 22, 2007 2:02 AM