Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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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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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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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