Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
HIPPOCRATESThe function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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If 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.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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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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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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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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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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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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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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