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Baltasar Gracián fotka

„Láska otvára dvere dôvere, a keď táto vojde, tými istými dverami vstúpi úcta.“

Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658) španielsky jezuita a barokový prozaik a filozof

Adam Mickiewicz fotka

„Voláš Boha. On často prichádza potajomky. Klope na tvoje dvere, ale ty si zriedka doma.“

Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) poľský národný básnik, dramatik, esejista, publicista, prekladateľ, profesor slovanskej literatúry a politi…

Helen Keller fotka

„Keď sa zatvoria dvere jedny šťastia, otvoria sa ďalšie; ale často sa pozeráme tak dlho na tie zatvorené dvere, že nevidíme tie, ktoré sa pre nás otvorili.“

Helen Keller (1880–1968) americká autorka a politická aktivistka

Milton Berle fotka

„Ak príležitosť nezaklope, postavte dvere.“

Milton Berle (1908–2002)

Gilbert Keith Chesterton fotka

„Muž, ktorý klope na dvere bordelu, hľadá Boha.“

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) anglický románopisec tajomstvo a kresťanský obhajcu

Hippocrates fotka

“Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.”

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Oath of Hippocrates (c. 400 BC)

Hippocrates fotka

“Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision 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.”

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Ὁ βίος βραχὺς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρὴ, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξὺς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερὴ, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή. Δεῖ δὲ οὐ μόνον ἑωυτὸν παρέχειν τὰ δέοντα ποιεῦντα, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν νοσέοντα, καὶ τοὺς παρεόντας, καὶ τὰ ἔξωθεν.
1:1, Variant translation: Art is long; life is short; opportunity is fleeting; judgement is difficult; experience is deceitful. Compare: "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne", Geoffrey Chaucer, The Assembly of Fowles, line 1.
Aphorisms

Hippocrates fotka

“[W]e ought not to reject the ancient Art, as if it were not, and had not been properly founded, because it did not attain accuracy in all things, but rather, since it is capable of reaching to the greatest exactitude by reasoning, to receive it and admire its discoveries, made from a state of great ignorance, and as having been well and properly made, and not from chance.”

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Hippocrates fotka

“[O]f articles of food, those which are unsuitable and hurtful to man when administered, every one is either bitter… or saltish or acid, or something else intense and strong, and therefore we are disordered by them… But all those things of which a man eats and drinks are devoid of any such intense and well-marked quality… which man is accustomed to use for food, with the exception of condiments and confectionaries, which are made to gratify the palate and for luxury. And from those things, when received into the body abundantly, there is no disorder nor dissolution of the powers belonging to the body; but strength, growth, and nourishment… for no other reason than because they are well mixed, have no thing in them of an immoderate character, nor anything strong, but the whole forms… [of] simple and not strong substance.”

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Hippocrates fotka

“A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.”

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2.
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Hippocrates fotka

“For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.”

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1:6; Variant translations:
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. Compare: "A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy", Guy Fawkes, in admitting to the Gunpowder Plot; "Diseases desperate grown / By desperate appliance are relieved, / Or not at all", William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act iv, Scene 3; "For a desperate disease a desperate cure", Michel de Montaigne, The Custom of the Isle of Cea, Chapter iii.
Aphorisms

Hippocrates fotka

“Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.”

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5.
The Law

Hippocrates fotka

“It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.”

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3.
The Law

Hippocrates fotka

“[N]o less mischief happens to a man from unseasonable depletion than from repletion… to the bulk of mankind it is of little consequence which of these rules they observe… whether they make it a practice to take one or two meals [per day]. But there are certain persons who cannot readily change their diet with impunity; and if they make any alteration in it for one day, or even for a part of a day, are greatly injured thereby.”

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Hippocrates fotka

“While I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all men, in all times! But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot!”

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Oath of Hippocrates (c. 400 BC)

Hippocrates fotka

“Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.”

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7:87
Variant translation: What cannot be cured by medicaments is cured by the knife, what the knife cannot cure is cured with the searing iron, and whatever this cannot cure must be considered incurable.
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Hippocrates fotka

“[A]ll the causes of the sufferance refer themselves to this rule, that the strongest things most especially and decidedly hurt man, whether in health or in disease.”

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Hippocrates fotka

“Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.”

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7:72.
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Hippocrates fotka

“I would give great praise to the physician whose mistakes are small, for perfect accuracy is seldom to be seen, since many physicians seem to me to be in the same plight as bad pilots, who, if they commit mistakes while conducting the ship in a calm do not expose themselves, but when a storm and violent hurricane overtake them, they then, from their ignorance and mistakes, are discovered to be what they are, by all men, namely, in losing their ship.”

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