The art is long, life is short.

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone..

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the o….

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

Divine is the task to relieve pain.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance..

There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that ….

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

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 posse….

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

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity..

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician..

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been ini….

A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruct….

I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer….

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….

Sport is a preserver of health..

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity..

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words..

Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief..

Walking is man's best medicine..