Life is short, [the] art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgement difficult.
Hippocrates
Life Is Short, Art Long
Topic: Creativity, Culture, & the Arts
“Life is short,
[the] art long,
opportunity fleeting,
experiment dangerous,
judgement difficult.”
Hippocrates
Hellenism
“Aphorisms by Hippocrates.” Translated by Francis Adams, Wikisource, the Free Online Library, Wikisource, 1849, en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aphorisms. [Aphorisms by Hippocrates, Ed. Charles River and Francis Adams, October 3, 2011].
Hippocrates
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Aphorisms by Hippocrates
Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.).
Additional aphorisms by Hippocrates
“The life so short, the craft so long to learn.”
–Hippocrates [Aphorisms by Hippocrates, Ed. Charles River and Francis Adams].
“Life is short, [the] art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgement difficult.” [“Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iucium difficile.”]
–Hippocrates [Aphorisms by Hippocrates, Ed. Charles River and Francis Adams].
“The chief virtue language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.”
–Hippocrates [Aphorisms by Hippocrates, Ed. Charles River and Francis Adams].