Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

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

If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.