"I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone."
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"The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick."
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"A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses."
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"The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words."
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"Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance."
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"What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will."
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"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
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"Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult."
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"The life so short, the craft so long to learn."
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"I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded."
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"A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god."
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"In all abundance there is lack."
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"Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant."
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"Life is short, the art long."
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"The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile; these make up the nature of this body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health. Now he enjoys the most perfect health when these elements are duly proportioned to one another in respect of compounding, power and bulk, and when they are perfectly mingled."
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"Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time."
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"I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture."
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"Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and the correct measures. For anyone who has an understanding of medicine in this way depends very little upon good luck, but is able to do good with or without luck. For the whole of medicine has been established, and the excellent principles discovered in it clearly have very little need of good luck."
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"It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another."
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"There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance."
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