“About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.”

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.

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.

For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.

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.

It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.

He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.