In all abundance there is lack.
When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
Divine is the task to relieve pain.
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
Sometimes give your services for nothing.
The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.