A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
HIPPOCRATESIdleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Many admire, few know.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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