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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.

Paracelsus

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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Art Doctor Healing Mindset Nature
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
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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Hide Result Reveal
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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Fools Ourselves Reality Regard Time
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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Benefit Cure Discover Remedy
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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Acceptance Dreams Greatness True
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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Gold Lying Medicine Power Virtue
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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Brisk Time Wind
As you talk, so is your heart.
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Character Heart One Liner Talk
Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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Brother Call Fools Ourselves
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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Live Patient Type Weird
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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Beginning Bliss Death Earth God Holy Kingdom Life
Some children are born from heaven and others are born from hell, because each human being has his inherent tendencies, and these tendencies belong to his spirit, and indicate the state in which he existed before he was born.
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Born Children Existence Heaven Hell Human State
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.
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Man Nature Reveal Statement
Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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Dosage Medicine Nourishment Poison Wine
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

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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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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