The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
HIPPOCRATESIn all abundance there is lack.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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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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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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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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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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