Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

Divine is the task to relieve pain

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.

Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

Life is short and the art long.