Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
HIPPOCRATESWhat I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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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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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