Hippocrates quotes

Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food. (Hippocrates)
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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The human soul develops up to death.
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Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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To do nothing is also a good remedy.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
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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. (Hippocrates)
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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.
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Many admire, few know.
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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 extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.
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Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.
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Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. (Hippocrates)
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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