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.
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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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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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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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Life is short, the art long.
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