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.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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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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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Many admire, few know.
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