Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
HIPPOCRATESMale 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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