There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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More Hippocrates Quotes
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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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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