The human soul develops up to the time of death.
HIPPOCRATESPositive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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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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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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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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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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