No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.