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.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, the art long.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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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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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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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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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 physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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