A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple wil…

- Philemon

We are all crazy when we are angry.

- Philemon

Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.

- Philemon

It is easy for men to give advice, but difficult for one's self to follow; we have an example in physicians: for their patients they order a strict r…

- Philemon

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

- Philemon

Temperate anger well becomes the wise.

- Philemon

Not one amongst the doctors, as you'll see For his own friends desires to prescribe.

- Philemon

Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.

- Philemon

Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.

- Philemon