The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.

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

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

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

Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.

All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.