“Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears.”

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

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.

Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you’ll weep yourself to death.

Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.