>>"They also serve who only stand and wait"
OK. Law 13 of the House of God you'll particularly like: "The delivery of good medical care is to do as much nothing as possible." A principle that pervades the book but sadly is more and more difficult to practice...
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
