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.
HIPPOCRATESHe who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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All disease starts in the gut.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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