Hippocrates Healthy Quotations

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.

All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.