“The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.”

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.

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.

Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.

The human soul develops up to the time of death.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

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.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

All diseases begin in the gut.

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

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.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia.

But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Recognize winners. They come in all forms.

To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

One day love will come in form of somebody who wants to give more than take, and you will know why love is rare.

Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.