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.
HIPPOCRATESNature itself is the best physician.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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In all abundance there is lack.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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