The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.

He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.