{"text":"And what physicians say about consumptive illnesses is applicable here: that at the beginning, such an illness is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure.","author":"Niccolò Machiavelli","tags":["diagnosis","politics","problems"],"id":89323,"author_id":"Niccol%C3%B2+Machiavelli"}