In all abundance there is lack.
HIPPOCRATESI will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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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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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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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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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Life is short, the art long.
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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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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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