What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Even 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.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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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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