Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
HIPPOCRATESIllnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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About 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.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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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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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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