Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
HIPPOCRATESThe 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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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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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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