All diseases begin in the gut.

The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.

In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)