As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.
Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.
The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.
All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.
For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.
Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.
To understand via the heart is not to understand.
If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.