Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
In all abundance there is lack.
And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.