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• Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

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  Excess, Consumerism, Overconsumption

  "Catholic Morality: Selected Sayings and Some Account of Various Religions". Book by E. Comyns Durnford, p. 90, 1915.

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• Rest as soon as there is pain.

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  Hurt, Pain, Healing

  Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.

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  Function, Restoring, Developing

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• All diseases begin in the gut.

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  Health, Disease, Guts

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• The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.

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  Way, Baths, Massage

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• Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.

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  Men, Substance, Body

  Hippocrates (1950). “The Medical works of Hippocrates: a new translation from the original Greek made especially for English readers”

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• Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

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  Medicine, Comforting, Healthy

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• Nature itself is the best physician.

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  Funny Inspirational, Physicians

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• Walking is a man's best medicine.

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  Journey, Men, Medicine

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• Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

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  Art, Medicine, Wish

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• It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.

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  Important, Persons, Knows

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• Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

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  Firsts, Harm

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• It is better to be full of drink than full of food.

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  Drink

  Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

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  Astrology, Physicians

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

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  Prayer, Men, Hands

  Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Paul Potter, Edward Theodore Withington (1959). “Hippocrates”

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• Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

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  Men, Holy

  Hippocrates, Paul Potter (1984). “Hippocrates”

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• Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

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  Funny Inspirational, Healing, Health

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• Sport is a preserver of health.

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  Sports, Motivational Sports

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• The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

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  Wise, Food, Health

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• We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

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  Body, Disease, Wellness

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• Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

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  Sleep, Disease, Watchfulness

  Aphorisms II

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• It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.

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  Serious, May, Disease

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• 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”

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• All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.

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  Healthy, Growth, Age

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• The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

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  Physicians, Disease, Patient

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.360

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