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.
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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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Life is short, the art long.
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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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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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