Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.

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.

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.