Men are chosen to be physicians in order to minister to diseases of which they are ignorant.
95.
Every man wishes to amass money in order to give it to the physicians who are the destroyers of life; they ought therefore to be rich.
96.
Take pains to preserve thy health; and thou wilt all the more easily do this if thou avoidest physicians, because their drugs are a kind of alchemy, and there are as many books on this subject as there are on medicine.
97.
Oh! meditators on perpetual motion, how many vain projects of similar character you have devised! Go and join the seekers of gold.
Against the Seekers of Perpetual Motion
98.