From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
HIPPOCRATESIf you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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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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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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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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