Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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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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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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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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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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In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.
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Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and the correct measures. For anyone who has an understanding of medicine in this way depends very little upon good luck, but is able to do good with or without luck. For the whole of medicine has been established, and the excellent principles discovered in it clearly have very little need of good luck.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Life is short and the art long.
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ἀσκεῖν περὶ τὰ νοσήματα δύο, ὠφελεῖν ἢ μὴ βλάπτειν
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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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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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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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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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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.