Galen Quotes

#1. A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.

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#2. (Wine is) the nurse of old age.

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#3. The chief merit of language is clearness.

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#4. All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.

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

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#6. Laziness breeds humors of the blood

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

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#8. The physician is only nature's assistant.

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#9. Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

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

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#11. 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.

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#12. If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?

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

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#14. After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.

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#15. The best physician is also a philosopher

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