Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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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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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Many admire, few know.
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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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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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