I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
HIPPOCRATESEven when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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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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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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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Life is short, the art long.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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