Hippocrates Quotes
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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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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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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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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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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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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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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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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Walking is a man's best medicine.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.
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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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Many admire, few know.
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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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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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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 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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.