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

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

Divine is the task to relieve pain

Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.

Sometimes give your services for nothing.

Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.

Walking is a man’s best medicine.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

Look to the seasons when choosing your cures

The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

Don’t let anyone turn you into a slave.

It’s always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone’s seen the last one.

Our – our friends can’t trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won’t even give them offensive weapons.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.