The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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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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