Quotes from Hippocrates

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity.

Disease [is] not an entity, but a fluctuating condition of the patient's body, a battle between the substance of disease and the natural self-healing tendency of the body.

In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

All the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery.

But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why there would be no end of divine things!

The selflessness and dedication shown by many Greek doctors can be seen not only in such works as the Epidemics, but also in, for example, Thucydides' account of the plague at Athens (II, 47ff.) — where he notes the high incidence of mortality from the disease among the doctors who attempted to treat it.

Only a pure heart can recognize a beautiful and a happy soul.

The human soul develops up to the time of death.

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.