It is well to superintend the sick to make them well, to care for the healthy to keep… — Hippocrates
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.
In the original Greek
ὁτὲ δὲ προῖκα, ἀναφέρων μνήμην εὐχαριστίης προτέρην ἢ παρεοῦσαν εὐδοκίην.
370 BC
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Hippocrates. "Precepts." Hippocratic Writings, translated by J. Chadwick and W. N. Mann, et al. Penguin Classics, 1984.
Original citation
Hippocrates. Precepts. c. 4th century BC, sect. 6.