It is better to be full of drink than full of food.

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.

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.

Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.