“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.”

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.

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.

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.

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

If you’re willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it’s, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.

The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don’t know how much I appreciate it.

The bigger the crowd the better really! The noise calms your nerves.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.