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.
HIPPOCRATESFor where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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