The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
HIPPOCRATESThe physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
HIPPOCRATESA physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
HIPPOCRATESI have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
HIPPOCRATESAll disease begins in the gut.
HIPPOCRATESAll disease starts in the gut.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
HIPPOCRATESThe natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
HIPPOCRATESIf someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
HIPPOCRATESIf 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.
HIPPOCRATESSometimes give your services for nothing.
HIPPOCRATESAn insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
HIPPOCRATESCure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
HIPPOCRATESThe human soul develops up to the time of death.
HIPPOCRATESYour foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
HIPPOCRATESIt is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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