Hippocrates Quotes
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“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
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“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”
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“Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.”
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“Life is short, the art long.”
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“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.”
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“Walking is man's best medicine.”
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“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”
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“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.”
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“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”
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“Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.”
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“The life so short, the craft so long to learn.”
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“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.”
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“It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.”
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“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
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“It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.”
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“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.”
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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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“A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.”
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“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.”
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“What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.”