The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
HIPPOCRATESThat which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Even 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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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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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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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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…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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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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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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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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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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