Width of life is more important than length of life.

Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.

God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

But the fact is that when wine is taken in moderation, it gives rise to a large amount of breath, whose character is balanced, and whose luminosity is strong and brilliant. Hence wine disposes greatly to gladness, and the person is subject to quite trivial exciting agents. The breath now takes up the impression of agents belonging to the present time more easily than it does those which relate to the future; it responds to agents conducive to delight rather than those conducive to a sense of beauty.