Hippocrates Short Quotes

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When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.

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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

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Extreme remedies are most appropriate for extreme diseases.

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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.

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Declare the past,
diagnose the present,
foretell the future.

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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.

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With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.

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Idleness and lack of occupation tend—nay are dragged—towards evil.

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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

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For extreme diseases extreme strictness of treatment is most efficacious.

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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

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It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.

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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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For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

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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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Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.

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When two pains occur together, but not in the same place, the more violent obscures the other.

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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

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In autumn, diseases are most acute, and most mortal, on the whole. The spring is most healthy, and least mortal.

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Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

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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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I will not use the knife, not even, verily, on sufferers from stone but I will give place to such as are craftsmen therein.

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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

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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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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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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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