Hippocrates Quotes
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. (XIV, Translated by W. H. S. Jones. LCL 148, Pages 296-297)
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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ἀσκεῖν περὶ τὰ νοσήματα δύο, ὠφελεῖν ἢ μὴ βλάπτειν
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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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While I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all men, in all times! But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot!
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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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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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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Life is short and the art long.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.