I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.

The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.

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.

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.