In all abundance there is lack.
HIPPOCRATESSleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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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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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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