Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
PARACELSUSWhat 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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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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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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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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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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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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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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