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Quotes from Hippocrates

The human soul develops up to the time of death.
~ Hippocrates
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
~ 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
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
~ Hippocrates
Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.
~ Hippocrates
Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
~ Hippocrates
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
~ Hippocrates
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
~ Hippocrates
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
~ Hippocrates
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.
~ Hippocrates