Friedrich von Logau: Frasi in inglese
“Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.”
The best Medicine. (Sinngedichte, I, 4, 41, published c. 1654, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
Deutsche Sinn-Getichte (1654) III, 5, 11.
Untranslated
Retribution. (Sinngedichte III, 2, 24, published c. 1654, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). Compare: "God's mill grinds slow, but sure", George Herbert. Jacula Prudentum. Sextus Empiricus is the first writer who has presented the whole of the adage cited by Plutarch in his treatise "Concerning such whom God is slow to punish".