Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it.

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

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.

The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.