Hippocrates Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

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  Pain, Silence, Sorrow

• Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

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  Laughter, Pain, Mistake

  Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”

• From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

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  Sports, Laughter, Grief

  Hippocrates (1979). “Writings”

• Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.

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  Sports, Sweet, Laughter

• Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

  Hippocrates

  Laughter, Pain, Grief

• There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.

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  Art, Pain, Mean

  Hippocrates, Paul Potter (1984). “Hippocrates”

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