Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC - 43 BC, Roman Statesman & Philosopher, Quoted in Henry Thomas Riley, Dictionary of Latin Quotations, Proverbs, Maxims, and Mottos, 1866
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The principle espoused in this quotation is the major reason that Health Care costs are so difficult to control. The individual patient and consumer is not driven by market conditions when his/her life is at stake.
Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.