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.
HIPPOCRATESEverything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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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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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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In all abundance there is lack.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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