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Life is short and the art long.

Hippocrates

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Hippocrates
Greek Physician
Philosopher
Physician
Cos
Hippokrates
Hippokrates of Kos
Hippocrates of Cos
Training
Short
Art
Long
Life

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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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