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Hippocrates was an ancient Greek physician, often called the "Father of Medicine." His teachings laid the foundation for modern medical ethics and clinical practice. He is remembered for the Hippocratic Oath, a code of conduct still influential in medicine today. Here are 77 of his quotes:

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality. (Hippocrates)

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

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Opposites are cures for opposites.

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Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine".

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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.

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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, But their diseases never leave them.

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In all abundance there is lack.

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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.

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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

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Certain s and physicians say that it is not possible for any one to know medicine who does not know what man is. (Hippocrates)

Related to this is the surgery of wounds arising in military service, which concerns the extraction of missiles.

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I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius, and Health, and All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation.

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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill.

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Whoever having undertaken to speak or write on Medicine, have first laid down for themselves some hypothesis to their argument, such as hot, or cold, or moist, or dry.

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But this saying rather appertains to philosophy, as Empedocles and certain others have described.

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Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact.

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To such a discovery and investigation what more suitable name could one give than that of Medicine? since it was discovered for the health of man, for his nourishment and safety.

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I have not thought that it stood in need of an empty hypothesis, like those subjects which are occult and dubious... as, for example, with regard to things above us.

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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.

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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)

I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents to make him partner in my livelihood when he is in need of money to share mine with him to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, witho.

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For extreme illnesses extreme remedies are most fitting.

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Related to this is the surgery of wounds arising in military service, which concerns the extraction of missiles. In city practice experience of these is but little, for very rarely even in a whole lifetime are there civil or military combats. In fact such things occur most frequently and continuously in armies abroad. Thus, the person intending to practice this kind of surgery must serve in the army, and accompany it on expeditions abroad; for in this way he would become experienced in this practice.

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I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius, and Health, and All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation - to reckon him who taught me this Art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him, and relieve his necessities if required; to look upon his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee or stipulation; and that by precept, lecture, and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of the Art to my own sons, and those of my teachers, and to disciples bound by a stipulation and oath according to the law of medicine, but to none others.

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Occupation: Greek Scientist
Born: 460 BC
Died: 370 BC
Quotes count: 77
Wikipedia: Hippocrates

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