Quotes by : Hippocrates

Prayer indeed is good but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

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

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

Life is short, the art long.

In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.....

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.....

Let food be thy your medicine

For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce....

What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.