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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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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Make a habit of two things: to help or at least to do no harm.
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Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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To really know is science to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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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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