The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
HIPPOCRATESAll 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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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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