Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
HIPPOCRATESWhat medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Men 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.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Illnesses 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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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