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

I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

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

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.

The human soul develops up to the time of death.