Sometimes give your services for nothing.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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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.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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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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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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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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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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