An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
HIPPOCRATESThose 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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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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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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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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