If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
HIPPOCRATESEven when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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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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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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