O what a lean cow! it is not fit to be killed: give it fodder until it gets fat.
Persian polymath, Canon of Medicine
Said to a prince suffering from melancholy who believed he was a cow and wished to be slaughtered for stew.
c. 1015-1020 (approximate, during his medical practice)
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