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.
HIPPOCRATESThere are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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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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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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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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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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