Hippocrates

The physician should be a good student.

The physician should be a good person.

The physician should be a good citizen.

The physician should be a good leader.

The physician should be a good example.

The physician should be a good friend.

The physician should be a good human being.

The physician should be a good scientist.

The physician should be a good artist.

The physician should be a good philosopher.

The physician should be a good healer.

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well.

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

Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

Foolish the doctor who despises knowledge acquired by the ancients.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combating the disease.