The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
PARACELSUSDetermined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
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It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
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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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As you talk, so is your heart.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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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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All 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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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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