Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

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.

Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.