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Hippocrates Quotes about Life

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

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

Hippocrates
Life, Get Well, Healing

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

Hippocrates
Life, Use It Or Lose It, Waste

Walking is man's best medicine.

Hippocrates
Inspirational, Life, Health

Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.

Hippocrates
Life, Art, Science
Moses Maimonides, Hippocrates (1987). “Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates”

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

Hippocrates
Inspirational, Life, Art
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 384, 1895.

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

Hippocrates
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
'Aphorisms' sect. 1, para. 1 (translation by Chaucer). Often quoted in Latin as Ars longa, vita brevis; see Seneca 'De Brevitae Vitae' sect. 1.

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

Hippocrates
Life, Opportunity, Long
Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

Hippocrates
Life, Time, Opportunity
'Precepts' ch. 1 (translated by W. H. S. Jones)

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

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Life, Soul, Males
Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Paul Potter, Edward Theodore Withington (1959). “Hippocrates”

Life is short, the art long.

Hippocrates
Life, Art, Long
Aphorisms sec. 1, para. 1.