Hippocrates Ἱπποκράτης
physician · Kos, ancient Greece · 460?–370? BC
A physician of Kos who saw disease as a natural event, not a punishment from the gods. A body of writings has come down under his name.
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c. 400 BC
Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
ὁ βίος βραχὺς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρὴ, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξὺς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερὴ, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή.Aphorisms 1.1
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