“Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?”

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.

There are no incurable diseases – only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs – only the lack of knowledge.

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

It is in the nature of water … to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; … it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

When you do not know the nature of the malady, leave it to nature; do not strive to hasten matters. For either nature will bring about the cure or it will itself reveal clearly what the malady really is.

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

A horse is simply a horse.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.

Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

The darkness doesn’t stand a chance against the sun.

I’ll see your darkness and love you anyway.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

Out of darkness is born the light.