Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
HIPPOCRATESIf for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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