ἀσκεῖν περὶ τὰ νοσήματα δύο, ὠφελεῖν ἢ μὴ βλάπτειν
• As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
• Variant translation: The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "ἀσκεῖν περὶ τὰ νοσήματα δύο, ὠφελεῖν ἢ μὴ βλάπτειν
• As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
• Variant translation: The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm." in the context of "Epidemics, Book I, Ch. 2, Full text online at Wikisource
   • Paraphrased variants:
  • Wherever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
   • Viking Book of Aphorisms : A Personal Selection (1988) by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger, p. 213." to mean that wisdom is timeless.