"The chief virtue that language can have is……" — Hippocrates
"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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139 Quotes by Hippocrates
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and…
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests,…
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by…
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the…
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and…
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing…
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