Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
HIPPOCRATESFirst of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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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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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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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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