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Prayer is indeed good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. — Hippocrates

Prayer is indeed good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates
370 BC
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PrayerTaking initiative
Time
370 BCClassical antiquity
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Hippocrates
Provenance
Current citation
Hippocrates. "A Regimen for Health." Hippocratic Writings, translated by J. Chadwick and W. N. Mann, et al. Penguin Classics, 1984.
Original citation
Hippocrates. Regimen. c. 4th century BC, regimen 4, sect. 87.

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