Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.