The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
HIPPOCRATESAll excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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