And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
HIPPOCRATESIdleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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