The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
HIPPOCRATESOur food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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