If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
HIPPOCRATESIf 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Many admire, few know.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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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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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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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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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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