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.
HIPPOCRATESOpposites are cures for opposites.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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It 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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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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I 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.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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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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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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