The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
HIPPOCRATESAll excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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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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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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