Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
Hippocrates
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hippocrates
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
Hippocrates
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
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
Hippocrates
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Hippocrates
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
Hippocrates
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
Hippocrates
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
Hippocrates
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
Hippocrates
Life is short, the art long.
Hippocrates
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
Hippocrates
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
Hippocrates
Walking is man’s best medicine.
Hippocrates
To do nothing is also a good remedy.
Hippocrates
The art is long, life is short.
Hippocrates
Many admire, few know.
Hippocrates
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
Hippocrates
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
Hippocrates
It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
Hippocrates
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates
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
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
Hippocrates
