The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
PARACELSUSNature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
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It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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