Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Life is short, the art long.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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