Category: physician
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
Hippocrates
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Life is short, the art long.
Hippocrates
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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
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
Hippocrates
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
Hippocrates
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates
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Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
Hippocrates
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates
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To do nothing is also a good remedy.
Hippocrates
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It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
Hippocrates