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Hippocrates

Hippocrates

Greek Scientist

Died: 370 BC

Disease Health Know Knowledge Long Nothing

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

Health Natural True Healers Forces Within Disease Us

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. Hippocrates

Habit Make Least Help Things Two Harm

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

Fitness Health Too Much Every Too Way Would Give Could Individual Safest Exercise Little Much Nourishment Found Right Amount

Everything in excess is opposed to nature. Hippocrates

Nature Everything Excess Opposed

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. Hippocrates

Important More Know Sort Than Person Disease

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. Hippocrates

Treat Sometimes Comfort Always Cure Often

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician. Hippocrates

Knowledge Physician Astrology Call Himself Without Right

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

Health Wise Man Wise Man Thought Own Consider Benefit Blessings Learn Greatest How His Human Should Derive Illnesses

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. Hippocrates

Knowledge Ignorance Science Father Opinion Breeds

Life is short, the art long. Hippocrates

Life Art Life Is Short Long Short

To do nothing is also a good remedy. Hippocrates

Good Nothing Remedy Also

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. Hippocrates

Important More Know Than Person Disease Far

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will. Hippocrates

Will Fire Heal Does Medicines

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Hippocrates

Words Language Nothing Virtue Clearness Chief Unfamiliar Much Use

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. Hippocrates

Appropriate Extreme Remedies Very Diseases

The art is long, life is short. Hippocrates

Life Art Life Is Short Long Long Life Short

Many admire, few know. Hippocrates

Few Admire Know Many

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