Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

The art is long, life is short

Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman.

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)