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.
HIPPOCRATESThe life so short, the craft so long to learn.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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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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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Many admire, few know.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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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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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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