Stupid

Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set bad examples.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

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I think the word "hypocrite" came after Hippocrates was dead. If not, I bet the other philosophers taunted him a lot about being "Hypocrite - ees" or "Hippocrates the hypocrite."

Sometimes I bet they would call him "Hippopotamuscrates," too. You know how juvenile philosophers can be. Poets, on the other hand, can be Juvenal.

Anyway, I bet it's because of all that taunting that Hippocrates came up with the Hippocratic Oath. He'd get all mad at the others and have his feelings hurt. He'd feel like lashing out and attacking them.

Then he'd step away for a minute and take a deep breath. He'd say, "First, do no harm, Hippocrates. First, do no harm."

Then he'd feel better because he was going to be all famous in the future and lesser philosophers like Overcompensates and Hyperventilates and Discombobulates would be forgotten.