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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
Hippocrates
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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