The physician treats, but nature heals.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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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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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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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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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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