Great Throughts Treasury

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Claudius Galen or Aelius Galenus

Greek Physician, Philosopher

"Laziness breeds humors of the blood."

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

"Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!"

"Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster."