All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
HIPPOCRATESScience is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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All 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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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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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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In all abundance there is lack.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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