The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
HIPPOCRATESI also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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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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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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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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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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