Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.

In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

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

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.