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.
HIPPOCRATESA 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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…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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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