The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
HIPPOCRATESEverything in excess is opposed to nature.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Many admire, few know.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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