I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
HIPPOCRATESIf 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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