20 Hippocratic phrases to meet the master of medicine

What medicines don’t cure, iron does; what iron does not heal, fire heals; what fire does not cure must be seen as incurable.

Sleep and insomnia, when beyond measure, are harmful.

I will not give poison to anyone even if he asks me to, nor will I suggest such a possibility.

The fever of illness provokes the body itself, the fever of love provokes the body of the other.

Healing is linked to time and sometimes to circumstances as well.

Young people today seem to have no respect for the past and no hope for the future.

For extreme ailments, only intense remedies are effective.

War is the surgeon’s best school.

Life is short, art is long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, and judgment difficult.

Art is long, life is short.

There are truly two different things: knowing and believing that one knows. Science consists in knowing; in believing that one knows lies ignorance.

Everything happens according to nature.

Neither satiety, nor appetite, nor anything beyond the natural state is good.

Neither society, nor man, nor anything else should go beyond the limits set by nature.

May your medicine be your food, and may your food be your medicine.

Your natural forces, the ones within you, will be the ones that will cure your illnesses.

Relieving pain is divine work.

Men should know that it is from the brain, and from nowhere else, that joys, delights, laughter and amusements, and sorrows, discouragements and lamentations, come.

To the sick, make it a habit of two things – to help, or at least not to harm.

There is a common circulation, a common breath. All things are related.