Hippocrates

"Training and practice make one better."

"The greatest honor that can befall a physician is the gratitude of his patient."

"In sleep and in sickness, man's true nature appears."

"The body is a structure of some complexity."

"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, we would have the safest way to health."

"Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joys, laughter and jests."

"It is not possible to live well unless one eats well, exercises well, sleeps well, and is cared for well."

"Medicine is the most noble of all arts."

"Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future."

"Everything in excess is opposed by nature."

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature heals the disease."

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

"Good health requires knowledge and effort."

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

"Idleness and lack of occupation tend inevitably to lead to illness."

"What medicines do not heal, the knife will; what the knife does not heal, the cautery will; what the cautery does not heal, it must be considered incurable."

"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy."

"Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit."

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

"The patient, although conscious that his condition is perilous, may recover his health."

"Life is a process of constant change, so the wise adapt."

"Work, rest, and moderation cure all ills."

"The physician must have, besides the knowledge derived from books, the experience derived from attendance on the sick."

"There is no illness of the body apart from the mind."

"Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it."

"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."

"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food."

"Oath-taking is a sign of stupidity in a warrior and a sign of virtue in a physician."

"The body is a unit, an organized whole, and one cannot treat part by part, but must treat the whole."

"A wise man should consider health as the most valuable possession."