An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
HIPPOCRATESMen think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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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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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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