The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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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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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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