The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Hippocrates141 quotes“The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.”
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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.
HippocratesHippocrates What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
HippocratesHippocrates Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
HippocratesHippocrates Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
HippocratesHippocrates An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
HippocratesHippocrates 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.
HippocratesHippocrates For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
HippocratesHippocrates Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
HippocratesHippocrates Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
HippocratesHippocrates Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
HippocratesHippocrates Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
HippocratesHippocrates Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
HippocratesHippocrates Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
HippocratesHippocrates The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
HippocratesHippocrates Wherefore 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.
HippocratesHippocrates It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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