Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
HIPPOCRATESA physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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