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.
HIPPOCRATESIf you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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