If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
HIPPOCRATESA 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Many admire, few know.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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