The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
HIPPOCRATESSleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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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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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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