We cannot fail in following nature.
The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.
What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?
Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot harder to act responsibly when consumer credit contracts are designed to be incomprehensible, when prices are obscure and risks are hidden.
Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.