“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.”

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.

These kids don’t know what to revolt against, so they just completely ignore it, which is a very frightening thing.

I don’t have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,

A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.

Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of a situation where something is legal, but is very much a sin against God.

Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces.

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.

I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.