The physician treats, but nature heals.
HIPPOCRATESMen ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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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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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Life is short, the art long.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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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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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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