If we want to make a statement about a man’s nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
PARACELSUSAll numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.
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The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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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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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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The main reason for healing is love.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
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What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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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.
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