Hippocrates

"Thought is the highest function of the body."

"To cure the human body is to cure the human soul."

"Healing requires both knowledge and compassion."

"The diseases which medicines cannot heal, the knife will; those which the knife cannot heal, the cautery will heal; those which the cautery cannot heal must be considered incurable."

"Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel mine and coming out empty handed."

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

"Suffering is the price of admission to life."

"The life so short, the craft so long to learn."

"Man is the measure of all things."

"Positive health requires a known object in life."

"Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through contentment with the goodness of the physician."

"To live well one must eat well, move well, sleep well, and think well."

"No disease of the body is independent of the soul."

"For extreme diseases, extreme remedies are most appropriate."

"Get knowledge of the causes of all phenomena."

"A man who does not know when to die will never know how to live."

"The greatest medicine is to love yourself."

"In health there is freedom."

"The prognosis of internal diseases is generally more difficult than that of surgical diseases."

"Leave all violence to the state."

"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust; if the doctors won't get you, then the germs must."

"One should labor, not as a means to live, but so that a good life comes to one while laboring."

"The things that are holy are revealed to those who are holy."

"Practice is the best teacher."

"A person in good health is not aware of their health until they become ill."

"Nature will bear the closest inspection."

"Look to the cause of the disease and you will cease to look for a cure."

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than what sort of disease a person has."

"The patient is the active not the passive agent in his own cure."

"All things require skill but an appetite."