Quotes by
Hippocrates |
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Quotations
| • | It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. 15 |
| • | Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. 10 |
| • | To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. 8 |
| • | If you are in a bad mood, go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood, go for another walk. 6 |
| • | To eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness. 6 |
| • | When in a state of hunger, one ought not to undertake labor. 5 |
| • | Walking is man’s best medicine. 4 |
| • | The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. 4 |
| • | Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always. 4 |
| • | The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. 3 |
| • | In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery. 3 |
| • | Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. 2 |
| • | When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom. 2 |
| • | In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly. 2 |
| • | The strongest things most especially and decidedly hurt man, whether in health or in disease. 2 |
Latin Quotes
| • | Art is long, life is short. Ars longa, vita brevis. 85 |
| • | First, do no harm. Primum, non nocere. (the origin is uncertain; Hippocrates’ works do not include this precise phrase) 83 |
Ancient Greek
| • | Life is short and Art long; the opportunity fleeting, experience deceitful, and judgment difficult. Ο βίος βραχύς, η δε τέχνη μακρή, ο δε καιρός οξύς, η δε πείρα σφαλερή, η δε κρίσις χαλεπή. (the first phrase in the “Aphorisms”) 46 |
| • | It is not possible to know medicine without knowing what a human is. Ουκ ένι ιατρικήν είδέναι, όστις μη οίδεν ό τι εστίν άνθρωπος. 42 |
| • | Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time Χρόνος εστίν εν ώ καιρός, και καιρός εν ώ χρόνος ου πολύς. 12 |
| • | The opposites are the cures of the opposites. Τα ενάντια τοις εναντίοις εισίν ιάματα. 7 |
| • | As to diseases, make a habit of two things, to help, or at least, to do no harm. Ασκείν περί τα νοσήματα δύο, ωφελείν ή μη βλάπτειν. 6 |
| • | Everything in excess is opposed to nature. Παν το πολύ τη φύσει πολέμιον. 6 |
| • | That which is used, gets stronger. That which is not used wastes away. Ότι χρήσις κρατύνει, αργίη δε τήκει. 6 |
| • | Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable. Οκόσα φάρμακα ουκ ιήται, σίδηρος ιήται, όσα σίδηρος ουκ ιήται, πυρ ιήται όσα δε πυρ ουκ ιήται, ταύτα χρη νομίζειν ανίατα. (iron=knife, fire=searing iron) 4 |
| • | Both sleep and sleeplessness, when immoderate, are bad. Ύπνος, αγρυπνίη, αμφότερα μάλλον του μετρίου γινόμενα, νούσος. 3 |
| • | Extreme remedies are the best for extreme diseases. Ες δε τα έσχατα νουσήματα αι έσχαται θεραπείαι ες ακριβείην, κράτισται. 3 |
