Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
HIPPOCRATESAnd he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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