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.
HIPPOCRATESOur food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Life is short, the art long.
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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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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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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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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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