Quotes from Galen

The physician is only nature's assistant.

Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.

Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

Employment is nature's physician and is essential to human happiness.

The chief merit of language is clearness.

Wine is) the nurse of old age.

Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.

In that case there will be no danger of his performing any evil action, since he practises temperance and despises money: all evil actions that men undertake are done either at the prompting of greed or under the spell of pleasure

All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.

The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted

Who Are You? What do you want? Where Are You Going? Who do you serve and who do you trust?

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

Praxiteles and Phidias… were unable to… reach and handle all portions of the material. It is not so, however, with nature. Every part of a bone she makes bone, every part of the flesh she makes flesh, and so with fat and all the rest; there is no part she has not touched, elaborated, and embellished.

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

It was, of course, a grand and impressive thing to do, to mistrust the obvious, and to pin one's faith in things which could not be seen!

That which is grows, while that which isnot becomes.

(Wine is) the nurse of old age.

Employment is nature's physician and is essential to human happiness.

If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?

He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.