Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.

Life is short, the art long.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

All disease begins in the gut.

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