An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
HIPPOCRATESTime is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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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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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Life is short, the art long.
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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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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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