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 2. A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

 3. A little madness in the SpringIs wholesome even for the King.

 4. A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

 5. Against diseases here the strongest fence, s the defensive virtue, abstinence.

 6. All actions beyond the ordinary limits are subject to a sinister interpretation.

 7. Among creatures some lead and some follow. Some blow hot and some blow cold. Some are strong and some are weak. Some may break and some may fall. Therefore the sage discards the extremes, the extravagant, and the excessive.

 8. As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

 9. Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, disease seeks men.

10. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

11. But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

12. But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

13. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too.

14. Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

15. Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

16. Doctors prescribe medicine of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of which they know nothing.

17. Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

18. Excess always carries its own retribution.

19. Excess generally causes reaction and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in government.

20. Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

21. For three things there is no remedy: Poverty associated with laziness, sickness coupled with old age, and enmity mixed with envy.

22. Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a super abundance of oil, and a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet.

23. God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.

24. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

25. He who cures a disease may be the skill fullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

26. He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

27. I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

28. I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

29. I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

30. If the doctor cures, the sun see it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

31. In individuals, insanity is rare, but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule.

32. In sickness the soul begins to dress herself for immortality. And first she unties the strings of vanity that make her upper garments cleave to the world and sit uneasy.

33. It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities.Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.

34. It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

35. Lately was Diaulus a doctor, now he is an undertaker, What the undertaker now does the doctor too did before.

36. Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

37. Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

38. Medicine is an art, and attends to the nature and constitution of the patient, and has principles of action and reason in each case.

39. Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

40. Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

41. Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected.

42. Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

43. Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene - nine-tenths of it!

44. Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

45. One gets into situations in life from which it is necessary to be a little mad to extricate oneself successfully.

46. Physician - One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

47. Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

48. Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer, when sick we call them to attend us, without the least propensity to jeer.

49. Prevention is better than cure.

50. Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.

51. Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

52. Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.

53. Some remedies are worse than the disease.

54. Tell your doctor, that y'are ill And what does he, but write a bill, Of which you need not read one letter, The worse the scrawl, the dose the better. For if you knew but what you take, Though you recover, he must break.

55. That dire disease, whose ruthless power Withers the beauty's transient flower.

56. The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

57. The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.

58. The best medicine is the abandonment of desires.

59. The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.

60. The body oppressed by excesses, bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine Spirit we had been endowed with.

61. The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.

62. The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after the date.

63. The feeling of health is acquired only through sickness.

64. The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity.

65. The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

66. The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of anykind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

67. The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.

68. The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;

69. The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

70. There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.

71. This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

72. To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

73. To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease. Only when one recognizes this disease as a disease Can one be free from the disease. The sage is free from the disease. Because he recognized this disease to be disease, He is free from it.

74. To stop drinking... Study a drunkard while you are sober.

75. Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

76. Too much noise deafens us; too much light blinds us; too great a distance, or too much of proximity equally prevents us from being able to see; too long or too short a discourse obscures our knowledge of a subject; too much of truth stuns us.

77. Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

78. We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.