Top 100 Hippocrates Quotes
#1. 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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#2. Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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#3. The physician treats, but nature heals.
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#4. First of all 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 ...
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#6. From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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#7. To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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#8. 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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#9. Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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#10. When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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#11. The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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#12. Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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#13. 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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#14. A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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#16. Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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#17. As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm.
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#19. Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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#20. What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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#21. When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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#22. We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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#23. And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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#24. For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.
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#25. The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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#26. Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy ...
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#27. He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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#29. The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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#30. The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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#31. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
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#32. What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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#33. When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.
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#34. Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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#35. Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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#36. Declare the past,
diagnose the present,
foretell the future.
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#37. 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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#38. The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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#39. In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.
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#40. Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil ...
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#41. Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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#43. If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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#44. There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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#45. Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.
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#46. A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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#47. 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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#48. Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
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#49. Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.
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#50. The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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#52. The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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#54. Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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#55. I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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#56. It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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#57. 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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#58. It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. ( ... regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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#59. The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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#60. Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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#61. The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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#62. That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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#63. Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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#64. And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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#68. Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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#70. 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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#71. All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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#72. Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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#73. The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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#74. Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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#75. He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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#76. I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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#77. The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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#78. Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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#79. Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.
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#80. I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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#81. The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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#82. Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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#84. Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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#85. Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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#87. Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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#89. War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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#90. 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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#91. Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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#92. 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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#93. In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery.
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#96. Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath ... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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#97. There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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#98. Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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#99. 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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#100. Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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