The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell; Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n.

— Paradise Lost, by John Milton

Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies. • The heart of her husband safely trusts her. • She opens her mouth with wisdom, and on her tongue is the law of kindness. • Her children rise up and call her blessed. • Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised. • Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.

[Proverbs 31]

«Do not eat the bread of idleness»

— an improvement on Proverbs 31

David and Goliath's head

Bacchus, Greek god of wine

St. John the baptist

The tooth-puller

You can tell that a painting is a caravaggio by its use of light & shadow, and it's anatomical accuracy (and his overuse of pretty boys as models)

هواي من الرؤوس المقطوعة بلوحاته جانت تحمل وجه الرسام نفسه.
كارافاجيو مات بعدما تأذى من عركة وية كم واحد (جانت مشاكله هواي)، بوقتها صارت بيه حمى ومات بعمر الـ 38.

Dentists before anesthesia:

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The WHO concluded that living in a "developed" country like the US is a strong predictor you’ll have a bad outcome if you’re diagnosed with schizophrenia. Why is it that living in a developed country, with all of its advances in medicine, would be a predictor of a bad outcome?

"Investigators from Harvard Med School reported in 1994 that long-term outcomes for schizophrenia patients had declined over the past 20 years, and were now no better than they had been in 1900."

The former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, Marcia Angell, wrote:

It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the [psychiatric] clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor...

The number of diagnostic categories (diseases) has proliferated with each subsequent edition of the DSM. The first edition had 128 categories, and the most recent, the DSM-5, catalogs 541 diagnoses. Frances, Chair of the DSM-4 effort, has bemoaned the excess of diagnostic labels that increasingly medicalize what he considers “severe variants of normal behavior”, adding that recent increases in the rates of ADHD, bipolar disorder, and ASDs are “market-driven diagnostic fads”. According to him, the DSM-5 will lead to massive over-diagnosis and harmful over-medication:

Except for autism, all the DSM-5 changes loosen diagnosis and threaten to turn our current diagnostic inflation into diagnostic hyperinflation. Painful experience with previous DSMs teaches that if anything in the diagnostic system can be misused and turned into a fad, it will be. Many millions of people with normal grief, gluttony, distractibility, worries, reactions to stress, the temper tantrums of childhood, the forgetting of old age, and “behavioral addictions” will soon be mislabeled as psychiatrically sick and given inappropriate treatment.