Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Walking is man's best medicine.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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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. ... 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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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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The art is long, life is short.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Many admire, few know.
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Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman.
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are not; which are in the process of changing into others; which are increasing and which are diminishing; which are major and which are minor; to treat the diseases that can be treated, but to recognize the ones that cannot be, and to know why they cannot be; by treating patients with the former, to give them the benefit of treatment as far as it is possible.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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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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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.