The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit..

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length..

The different sorts of madness are innumerable..

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence..

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes..

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death..

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health..

It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in the nature of earth to become t….

Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs..