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Determined 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.

Paracelsus

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
PARACELSUS

Poison Remedy Right
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.
PARACELSUS

Build Error Heaven Thrive
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.
PARACELSUS

Born Children Existence Heaven Hell Human State
As you talk, so is your heart.
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Character Heart One Liner Talk
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
PARACELSUS

Alchemy Magic Process
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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Hide Result Reveal
All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
PARACELSUS

Amount Dosage Poison Quality
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.
PARACELSUS

Mathematics Point Science Wisdom
Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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Dosage Medicine Nourishment Poison Wine
Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
PARACELSUS

Be Yourself Himself
That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
PARACELSUS

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
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
PARACELSUS

Art Body Copy Inheritance Medicine
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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Breathe Flow Himself Live Source
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
PARACELSUS

Brisk Time Wind
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.
PARACELSUS

Case Doubt Feeling Guide Known Life

Determined 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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Determined 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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