Famous Quotes By Hippocrates

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

1. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

__ Hippocrates

2. Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

__ Hippocrates

3. Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

__ Hippocrates

4. Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

__ Hippocrates

5. Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

__ Hippocrates

6. Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

__ Hippocrates

7. What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

__ Hippocrates

8. Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

__ Hippocrates

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

__ Hippocrates

10. To do nothing is also a good remedy.

__ Hippocrates

11. Walking is man's best medicine.

__ Hippocrates

12. It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

__ Hippocrates

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

__ Hippocrates

14. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

__ Hippocrates

15. Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

__ Hippocrates

16. A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

__ Hippocrates

17. 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.

__ Hippocrates

18. The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

__ Hippocrates

18. Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

__ Hippocrates

19. It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

__ Hippocrates

20. The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

__  Hippocrates

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