Sport is a preserver of health.
HIPPOCRATESFirst of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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