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.
HIPPOCRATESLook to the seasons when choosing your cures
More Hippocrates Quotes
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All disease begins in the gut.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Many admire, few know.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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