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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More Hippocrates Quotes
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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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.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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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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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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