Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
HIPPOCRATESWalking is man’s best medicine.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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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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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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