Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

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.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

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

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.