An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
HIPPOCRATESIt is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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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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In all abundance there is lack.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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