205 Quotes by Hippocrates

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

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

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.

Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.

Life is short, the art long.

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

I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.

War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.