Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
HIPPOCRATESIf we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Positive 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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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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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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no 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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