Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease
Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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.
To do nothing is also a good remedy.
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
Walking is a man's best medicine.
I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.