Hippocrates

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

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

Idleness and lack of occupation tend — nay are dragged — towards evil.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Walking is man's best medicine.

To eat when you are sick is to feed your illness.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food.

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

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