Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
HIPPOCRATESThere is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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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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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Many admire, few know.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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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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