» 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.
» Walking is a man's best medicine.
» What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
» 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.