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

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.

I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.

Sport is a preserver of health.

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

In all abundance there is lack.