There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
HIPPOCRATESThe natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Many admire, few know.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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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.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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