The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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