Hippocrates

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

"Walking is man's best medicine."

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."

"Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult."

"The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well."

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

"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."

"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."

"Know thyself."

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

"Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body."

"The constitution is more important than all the particular therapies."

"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance."

"There is no disease without change, and no increase in disease without change."

"The greatest wealth is health."

"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed."

"Whoever loves practice without theory is like the sailor who steers without sun or stars."

"Nature is the best physician."

"If there is anything good and useful it cannot be bad to make it known to good men."

"The patient must combat the disease together with the physician."

"It is better to prevent than to treat."

"Healing is a matter of time."

"Untimely talk is very dangerous, as is the administration of medicines at the wrong time."

"There are, in fact, two things: science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."

"All disease begins in the gut."

"It is in the constitution of the human body that it can be made well or sick."

"The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings."

"To understand the nature of the illness, one must understand the patient."

"When the stomach is full, the body is strong."

"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."