205 Quotes by Hippocrates

Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

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

For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.

The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

Sometimes give your services for nothing.

All diseases begin in the gut.

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 combatting the disease.