Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
PARACELSUSAll things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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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 dose makes the poison.
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Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
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The main reason for healing is love.
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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
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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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But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
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