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.
HIPPOCRATESWine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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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.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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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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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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