Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are not; which are in the process of changing into others; which are increasing and which are diminishing; which are major and which are minor; to treat the diseases that can be treated, but to recognize the ones that cannot be, and to know why they cannot be; by treating patients with the former, to give them the benefit of treatment as far as it is possible.

Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

All disease begins in the gut.

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

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.

Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.