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.
HIPPOCRATESIf you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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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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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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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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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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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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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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In all abundance there is lack.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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