Of two sufferings that occur at the same time, but not in the same place in the body, the stronger reduces the other.
Just as the postmen clean the fabrics by shaking off the dust from them, so does gymnastics purify the body.
Those who spend a lot of time in the heat will experience harmful consequences: muscle weakness, weakening of the nerves, darkening of the mind, bleeding, fainting; after this comes death.
The doctor treats the disease, but nature heals it.
Medicine is truly the noblest of all arts.
Our foodstuffs must be means of treatment, and our means of treatment must be foodstuffs.
Do not harm (the patient).
Neither satiety, nor hunger, nor anything else is beneficial, if the natural balance is exceeded.
Drinking wine quenches hunger.
It is more useful to choose lower quality but more pleasant food and drink than better quality but unpleasant.
Haste and over-preparation, while absolutely useful, are to be despised.
Inactivity and laziness bring vice and disease. On the contrary, directing the mind to something in particular brings with it vivacity, always oriented to the strengthening of life
Those trained in heavy labor, even if they be weak or old, will do these labors with greater ease than those who are strong and young but untrained.
What is opposite is cured by its opposite.
Alcoholism - the cause of weakness and sickly condition of children.
Sleep and insomnia, when manifested excessively, are a bad sign.
The old (...) get sick less than the young. But if, they happen to have any chronic disease, the latter ends with life.
The elderly tolerate the regimen easily; then come the adults, more difficult the young, and most difficult the children; among the latter, those who stand out for their special liveliness suffer the hardest.
Those who, having an affliction in a particular organ of the body, do not feel the pain, those have a sick mind.
What medicine doesn't cure, iron does. What iron does not cure, fire does. And what even fire does not heal, is considered incurable.
Whatever I see or hear during a treatment I will keep secret, because here silence is a duty.
I direct the regime of the sick towards their benefit (...), restraining myself from causing them any harm or injustice.
Be content with what you have, but strive for better.
In Athens there is always a party for the newcomer.
Guard with great care the secrets entrusted to you, better than the fortunes entrusted to your care, for honest men must be men whose character is worth more than an oath.
In happy circumstances, friends should appear only invited, and in unfortunate ones, uninvited, on their own initiative.
If you want to consult with someone about your affairs, see first how this person handles his own affairs.
If you can't talk about what others have talked about before you, you must try to talk better like them.
When Isocrates was asked to say something at a party, he replied: "For what I am gifted, now is not the right time, and for what now is the right time, I am not gifted."
Treat your parents as you would want your own children to treat you.