Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

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Art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.

aphorism by Hippocrates
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It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

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