Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
HIPPOCRATESNature itself is the best physician.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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