Hippocrates

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future.

It is much better to prevent than to cure.

The greatest good is health.

The physician should be able to make a good prognosis.

The body is a temple.

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

The physician must have a good eye, a steady hand, and a compassionate heart.

The art of medicine is to keep the patient in good spirits.

The best way to prevent disease is to live temperately.

The physician must be a lover of wisdom.

Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.

All disease begins in the gut.

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

Medicine is the most distinguished of all the arts, but through the ignorance of those who practice it, and those who casually judge such practitioners, it is now of all the arts by far the least esteemed.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

The chief deficiency, I said, in the life of man is sleep.

If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.

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

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because both are in all things.

The forms of diseases are numberless; the causes are simple.