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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More Hippocrates Quotes
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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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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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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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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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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