Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.