Hippocrates

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

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

If you are in a bad mood go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.

The human soul develops up to the time of death.

It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary.

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

The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile; these make up the nature of his body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health.

For a theory is a composite memory of things apprehended with sense perception.

Those diseases that medicines do not cure, iron cures; those that iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those that fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.

The mind is the same in all, but the intellect differs.

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

The physician must have a worthy appearance; he should look healthy and be well-nourished, appropriate to his physique.

One man's meat is another man's poison.

Opposites are cures for opposites.

In abundance, there is lack.

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

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

Persons who are naturally very fat are apt to die earlier than those who are slender.

To eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.