To wish to be well is part of becoming well.

It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who craves more.

When we have provided against cold, hunger and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

It is foolish and quite unfitting for an educated man to spend all his time on acquiring bulging muscles, a thick neck and mighty thighs. The large amounts they are compelled to eat make them dull-witted.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

No man was ever wise by chance.