If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
HIPPOCRATESThe wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Many admire, few know.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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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.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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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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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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