Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
HIPPOCRATESAbout 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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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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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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