Ibn Sina (doctor, psychologist, philosopher, strong contender for the title of most brilliant man ever – look him up) said love was a form of insanity, and marriage the best cure.
(That’s Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbdillāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Sīnā to us lesser mortals. A Latin translation of his Canon of Medicine was a standard textbook for about three hundred years, and his portrait hangs in the Hall of the Avicenna Faculty of Medicine in the University of Paris.)
Nothing like marriage to put an end to romance.
Ibn Sina (doctor, psychologist, philosopher, strong contender for the title of most brilliant man ever – look him up) said love was a form of insanity, and marriage the best cure.
(That’s Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbdillāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Sīnā to us lesser mortals. A Latin translation of his Canon of Medicine was a standard textbook for about three hundred years, and his portrait hangs in the Hall of the Avicenna Faculty of Medicine in the University of Paris.)