Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.