Sometimes give your services for nothing.
HIPPOCRATESFat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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