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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.

Paracelsus

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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Acceptance Dreams Greatness True
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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Art Creation Flow Heaven Source
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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Benefit Dosage Drugs
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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Art Guide Medicine Pills Science Understand
Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Earth Element Man Planet Stars World
All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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Distinguish Poison Remedy Simplicity
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
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
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
Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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Be Yourself Original
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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Case Doubt Feeling Guide Known Life
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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Consequence Human Law Reason Ultimate Universe
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
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Amount Cure Poison Portion Remedy
The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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Degree Love Medicine One Liner
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar

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