Quotes from Hippocrates

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

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

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

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

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

A physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician ... There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.

Life is brief, art is long.

Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend—nay are dragged—towards evil.

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

Opposites are cures for opposites.

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

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.

Life is short, the art long.

Sport is a preserver of health.

Medicine is the most distinguished of all the arts, but through the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who casually judge such practitioners, it is now of all the arts by far the least esteemed.

For extreme diseases extreme strictness of treatment is most efficacious.

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.

God is mans best medicine!!!....The best medicine for man is god!!!......