It is well to superintend the sick to make them well, to care for the healthy to keep them well, also to care for one's own self, so as to observe what it seemly.

ὁτὲ δὲ προῖκα, ἀναφέρων μνήμην εὐχαριστίης προτέρην ἢ παρεοῦσαν εὐδοκίην.

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Original Citation

Hippocrates. Precepts. c. 4th century BC, sect. 6.

Current Citation

Hippocrates. "Precepts." Hippocratic Writings, translated by J. Chadwick and W. N. Mann, et al. Penguin Classics, 1984.