Hippocrates

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it.

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.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who has the disease.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.

The best physician is also a philosopher.

He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

Our natures are the physicians of our diseases.

It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things.

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.

The physician must be experienced in many things, but assuredly in rubbing.

The brain is the seat of the soul.

The powers of drugs are not to be learned from books, but from experience.

The body's heat is the source of its life.

Men ought to know that from nothing else but thence (from the brain) come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations.

The healthy mind is in the healthy body.

The physician is the servant of nature.

All diseases begin in the gut.