To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
HIPPOCRATESA wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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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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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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