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129–216 Greece
Claudius Galenus of Pergamum (129–c. 200/c. 216), better known as Galen, was a Greek physician and a writer on medicine and philosophy. His theories dominated European medicine for well over a millennium.
Also known as: Claudius Galenus
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Employment is Nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.
Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations (1884)
That which is, grows, while that which is not, becomes.
The best physician is also a philosopher.
Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster.
Diogenes compared them to fig-trees growing over precipices; for their fruit was devoured by daws and crows, not by men.
But it is best of all to look at the human skeleton with your own eyes.
The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
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.
As quoted in Garnett, Vallée, Brandl, The Universal Anthology, Vol 12 (1809), p. 192.
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