The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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.
Life is short, the art long.
It is better to be full of drink than full of food.