Hippocrates Quotes

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  Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

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• The craft so long [to learn], the life so short.

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  Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.

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

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

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

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• 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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• All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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

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• Walking is man’s best medicine.

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• To do nothing is also a good remedy.

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

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

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

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• Many admire, few know.

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

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• Life is short, the art long.

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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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Hippocrates (29)

Birth:	460 BC
Death:	370 BC
Nationality:	Greek
Profession:	Physician

About

Hippocrates of Kos, also known as Hippocrates II was born in Kos, Greece. He was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles, and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is referred to as the "Father of Modern Medicine" in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as the founder of the Hippocratic School of Medicine. He wrote several books include: Hippocratic Corpus, On Ancient Medicine, On Airs, Waters And Places, On the Sacred Disease, Of The Epidemics, The genuine works of Hippocrates, On Fractures, and The aphorisms of Hippocrates.

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