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.
PARACELSUSFor one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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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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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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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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The main reason for healing is love.
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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