The Medical Profession for Six Thousand Years
“Tu recte vivis si curas esse quod audis;
Neve putes alium sapiente bonoque beatum.”
—Horace, Ep., 1, 16.
[You are living right if you take care to be what people say you are. Do not imagine that any one who is really happy is other than wise and good.]
“Quod ipse sis, non quod habearis, interest.”
—Publius Syrus.
[The question is what you are, not what you are thought to be.]
“May you so raise your character, that you may help to make the next age a better thing, and leave posterity in your debt for the advantage it shall receive by your example.”
—Lord Halifax.