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Life is short, art is long, opportunity is fleeting, experience misleading
the judgment difficult.
Better to prevent than cure. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.
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. It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease that person has. Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm. The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Walking is the best medicine. Everything in excess is opposed to nature. Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the Gods, lend yourself a hand. It is more important to know what person has the disease than what disease the person has.
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