As to diseases, make a habit of two things – to help, or at least, to do no harm.

Hippocrates
As to diseases, make a habit of two things –...
As to diseases, make a habit of two things –...
As to diseases, make a habit of two things –...
As to diseases, make a habit of two things –...
About This Quote

In the event of a disease outbreak, it is better to do something good or neutral at least than to do nothing at all. In this context, doing nothing is the same as doing harm. In this quote, Franklin says that it is better to help someone than it is to cause harm. When people feel ill, they tend to want to be looked after and want people to help them with their illness. However, if they are left unhelped, they may reluctantly turn to the medical profession for help.

Some Similar Quotes
  1. The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who... - Mother Teresa
  2. After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. - Chuck Palahniuk
  3. It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family... - Mary Roach
  4. The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful surrender? What sort of character did I hope... - Lance Armstrong
  5. Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh! ” he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. "Are you trying to kill me, woman?"" If I mean to kill someone, I... - Tamora Pierce
More Quotes By Hippocrates
  1. People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything...
  2. There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
  3. The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future – must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
  4. As to diseases, make a habit of two things – to help, or at least, to do no harm.
  5. In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.
Related Topics