Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
HIPPOCRATESWho could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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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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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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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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