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Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting.

— Hippocrates

Ars longa, vita brevis est.

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

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

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (1942)

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

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