Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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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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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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