That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
HIPPOCRATESTimidity 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.
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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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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