The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
HIPPOCRATESI 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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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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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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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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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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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