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Famous Hippocrates Quotes
Source: Aphorisms
“What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.”
Source: Aphorisms
“When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.”
Source: The Aphorisms of Hippocrates
“Food as medicine: "Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food.”
Source: Surgery
“Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult.”
Source: Aphorisms
“As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.”
Source: The Aphorisms of Hippocrates
“Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?”
“For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.”
Source: Hippocrates
“For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.”
Source: The Genuine Works of Hippocrates
“Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.”
Source: Aphorisms
Source: Selected Works
Source: The Genuine Works of Hippocrates
“Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.”
“It is better to be full of drink than full of food.”
Source: Hippocratic writings
“Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.”
Source: Aphorisms
“There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.”
“For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.”
“Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.”
“Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.”
“He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.”
“Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.”
“Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.”
“Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”
“Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.”
“Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.”
Source: Hippocrates