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

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

Walking is a man's best medicine.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

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.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.