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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

Paracelsus

Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
PARACELSUS

Dosage Drugs
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
PARACELSUS

Gold Lying Medicine Power Virtue
That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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Live Reason Spirit
He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
PARACELSUS

Himself Love Understand Worth
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
PARACELSUS

Cure Fast Greatness
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
PARACELSUS

Gold Man Nature
The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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Body Human Life Material Stars Sunshine
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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Cure Eyes Nature See Tree
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.
PARACELSUS

Beginning Bliss Death Earth God Holy Kingdom Life
Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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Dreams Element Fantasy Meaning
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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Fools Fruit Imagination Oneself Time
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
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Book Himself Knowledge Patient Rich Writing
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
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Art Employment Medicine Patient Power Science
The dose makes the poison.
PARACELSUS

Dosage One Liner Poison
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
PARACELSUS

Benefit Dosage Drugs
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.
PARACELSUS

Burn Punishment Removal

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

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