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“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
― Hippocrates

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
― Hippocrates

“Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. ”
― Hippocrates

“Walking is man's best medicine. ”
― Hippocrates

“As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.”
― Hippocrates

“Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.”
― Hippocrates

“Ars longa,
vita brevis,
occasio praeceps,
experimentum periculosum,
iudicium difficile.

Life is short,
[the] art long,
opportunity fleeting,
experiment dangerous,
judgment difficult.”
― Hippocrates

“People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe”
― Hippocrates

“Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.”
― Hippocrates

“If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.”
― Hippocrates

“The life so short, the craft so long to learn.”
― Hippocrates

“It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.”
― Hippocrates

“Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)”
― Hippocrates

“The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well.”
― Hippocrates

“Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick.”
― Hippocrates

“That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.”
― Hippocrates

“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest 
of human blessings, and learn how by his own 
thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.”
― Hippocrates

“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity.”
― Hippocrates

“The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.”
― Hippocrates

“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.”
― Hippocrates

“Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.”
― Hippocrates

“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.”
― Hippocrates

“The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.”
― Hippocrates

“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.”
― Hippocrates

“All disease begins in the gut.”
― Hippocrates

“Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.”
― Hippocrates

“When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.”
― Hippocrates, The Aphorisms of Hippocrates

“Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.”
― Hippocrates & Galen, Hippocrates | Galen

“Disease [is] not an entity, but a fluctuating condition of the patient's body, a battle between the substance of disease and the natural self-healing tendency of the body.”
― Hippocrates

“For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it.”
― Hippocrates, Hippocratic Writings