The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
HIPPOCRATESI 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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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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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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 forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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