Hippocrates

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it.

All parts of the body which have been used in moderation and in which a person has been accustomed to work, become thereby healthy and well developed and age slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, ill-developed and age quickly.

Rest as soon as you feel tired. In the long run, it will do you more good than any medicine.

The physician should be able to make a prognosis, to know the present, and to foretell the future.

The body's heat is the source of life.

The physician must be a man of honor.

The healthy man is a product of nature, the sick man a product of art.

The best way to prevent disease is to live a healthy life.

The physician must be able to distinguish the possible from the impossible.

The body is a temple, and the soul is its inhabitant.

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least to do no harm.

The natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

The art of medicine 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.

The physician should not be ashamed to learn from the patient.

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

Where there is love of man, there is also love of the art of medicine.

The physician must be a lover of wisdom, for wisdom is the mother of all good things, and the physician who is not a lover of wisdom is like a ship without a rudder.

The chiefest function of the physician is to keep the patient from harm.

It is the physician's duty to heal the sick, and to prevent the healthy from falling ill.

The physician should be able to make a good guess at the future, for this is the best way to gain the confidence of the patient.