To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
HIPPOCRATESWherefore 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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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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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Many admire, few know.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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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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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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