Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
HIPPOCRATESIf we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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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I 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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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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