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It Is No Wrong Or Injustice That One Has Many Bags Of The Finest Myrrh And Garments Embroidered With Gold, While Another Has Not Those Things, Which Are Not Necessary For Our Maintenance; He Who Has Them Has Not Thereby Obtained Control Over Anything That Could Be An Essential Addition To His Nature, But Has Only Obtained Something Illusory Or Deceptive. ...this Is The Rule At All Times And In All Places; No Notice Should Be Taken Of Exceptional Cases, As We Have Explained.

Galen , In The Third Section Of His Book, "the Use Of The Limbs," Says Correctly That It Would Be In Vain To Expect To See Living Beings Formed Of The Blood Of Menstruous Women And The Semen Virile, Who Will Not Die, Will Never Feel Pain, Or Will Move Perpetually, Or Shine Like The Sun. This Dictum Of Galen Is Part Of The Following More General Proposition: Whatever Is Formed Of Matter Receives The Most Perfect Form Possible In That Species Of Matter; In Each Individual Case The Defects Are In Accordance With That Individual Matter.

He Who Thinks He Can Have Flesh And Bones Without Being Subject To Any External Influence, Or Any Accidents Of Matter, Unconsciously Wishes To Reconcile Two Opposites, Viz., To Be At The Same Time Subject And Not Subject To Change. If Man Were Never Subject To Change There Could Be No Generation; There Would Be One Single Being, But No Individuals Forming A Species.

The Goal Of Good Health Is To Enable A Person To Acquire Wisdom.

Inspire Me With Love For My Art And For Thy Creatures. In The Sufferer Let Me See Only The Human Being.