Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

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.

Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.