Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And… — Hippocrates Copy Share
But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made… — Hippocrates Copy Share
The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd… — Hippocrates Copy Share
I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain… — Hippocrates Copy Share
There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. — Hippocrates Copy Share
The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. — Hippocrates Copy Share
Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one… — Hippocrates Copy Share
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… — Hippocrates Copy Share
Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details… — Hippocrates Copy Share
A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought… — Hippocrates Copy Share
Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them… — Hippocrates Copy Share
