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

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

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

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.