“It is better to be full of drink than full of food.”

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.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Sport is a preserver of health.

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.

He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.

In all abundance there is lack.

I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

When in sickness, look to the spine first.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

Let’s get drunk off the stars and tell each other everything we’re afraid to say sober.

Your story isn’t powerful enough if all it does is lead the horse to water; it has to inspire the horse to drink, too. On social media, the only story that can achieve that goal is one told with native content.

I hope next time when we meet, we won’t be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.

I still drink vodka; I’m not an advocate of drinking, but I’m no angel. I don’t like grass, because it just makes me hungry.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.