The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
HIPPOCRATESNature itself is the best physician.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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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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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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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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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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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