Shocking Sayings
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Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
The mind's inclination follows the body's temperature.
But it is best of all to look at the human skeleton with your own eyes. This is very easy in Alexandria, so that the physicians of that area instruct their pupils with the aid of autopsy.
We therefore assume that it is either a text from the Roman physician Galen, or an unknown commentary on his work... describing a bizarre theory on hysteria by the Greco-Roman physician Galen (A.D. 130 –210)... that hysteria was caused by a 'wanderin…
All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.
A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.
The great horde of physicians are always servile imitators, who can neither perceive nor correct the faults of their system, and are always ready to growl at and even to worry the ingenious person that could attempt it. Thus was the system of Galen s…
Employment is Nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.
καὶ σύ, τέκνον (kai sy, teknon) - 'You too, child?'
ista quidem vis est! ('Why, this is violence!' or 'But this is violence!')
Foulest Casca, what are you doing?
I would rather be stabbed with a knife than to be betrayed by a friend.
The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know.
If you wish to be success in the world promise everything deliver nothing.
God is on the side with the best artillery.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest.
Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.