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.
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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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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