The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
HIPPOCRATESTime is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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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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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Men 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. …
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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I 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.
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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 art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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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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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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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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