From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
HIPPOCRATESGet knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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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, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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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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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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