Hippocrates

"Do not be angry at the man who brings a disease to light, for he is doing you a service."

"Such is life, dear friend."

"Whoever may become strong and staunch in constitution should become warm and dry."

"One should eat enough to support life but not so much as to feel uncomfortable."

"There is no one so great that he is not subject to the state, nor so small that he is not important to the state."

"The good physician knows his patients beyond the physical body."

"When the regimen is contrary to the disease it is salutary; when it favors the disease it is hurtful."

"We ought not to shirk our responsibility by trying to author all knowledge ourselves."

"Blood is the root and foundation of all things."

"That which is used develops; that which is not used wastes away."

"Sadness provokes the loss of one's wits and turns one toward dark clouds."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a person can change his life by changing his attitude."

"When sleep puts an end to the eating, it is a sign of both satiety and heaviness."

"As to diseases: make a habit of two things—to help, or at least, to do no harm."

"We physicians have hitherto been at fault in many ways; chiefly in this, that we have based our doctrines upon hypotheses."

"Nothing violent is permanent."

"It is part of the cure to wish to be cured."

"The symptoms are the cry of outraged organs."

"Moderation in all things brings peace."

"Cowards and madmen are made by rearing, not by nature."

"Anger arises from frustrated desires."

"Neither pleasure nor pain is a desirable state."

"The body is a machine, but not a simple machine."

"To be ignorant of the opinions of the ancients is to be ignorant of the world."

"Doing nothing is not idleness; idleness is doing something with reluctance."

"What is to be done in a case is the opposite of what the disease demands."

"Knowledge is the life of the mind."

"Celsus says that there is nothing to be found among physicians that merits blame."

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

"In every inquiry, we must consider what is simple and what is compound."