Hippocrates Quotes

Prayer indeed is good but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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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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Wherever 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.
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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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Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.
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Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.
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Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.
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Let food be thy your medicine
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
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What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.
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For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.
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Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.
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In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.
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As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
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In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.
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As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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