The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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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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.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are 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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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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