First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
HIPPOCRATESOpposites are cures for opposites.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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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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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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