Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, the art long.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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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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Timidity 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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Many admire, few know.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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