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

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.

Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.

...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

War is the only proper school of the surgeon.