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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

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Hippocrates
Greek Physician
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Physician
Cos
Hippokrates
Hippokrates of Kos
Hippocrates of Cos
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The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile these make up the nature of this body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health. Now he enjoys the most perfect health when these elements are duly proportioned to one another in respect of compounding, power and bulk, and when they are perfectly mingled.
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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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I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.
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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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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Make a habit of two things: to help or at least to do no harm.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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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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What medicines do not heal, the lance will what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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