Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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 wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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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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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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