Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
HIPPOCRATESMale and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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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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