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.
HIPPOCRATESWhenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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