Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
HIPPOCRATESThe function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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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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