“Sometimes give your services for nothing.”

Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.

Opposites are cures for opposites.

The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.

I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.

Life is short, the art long.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.

Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.

What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

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.

We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.

You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.

Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.

We’ve made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m just grateful for it.

Health to the ocean means health for us.

It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.