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The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.

Paracelsus

All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.
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Art Awakening Lying Man
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
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
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
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar
Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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Dosage Drugs
Man is ill because he is never still.
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Calm Man Sick
Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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Be Yourself Himself
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
PARACELSUS

Benefit Dosage Drugs
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
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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Ourselves Prayer Preparation Skill
The dose makes the poison.
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Dosage One Liner Poison
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Cure Fast Greatness
What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
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Beginning Bliss Death Earth God Holy Kingdom Life
Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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Blood System Woman
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
PARACELSUS

Consequence Human Law Reason Ultimate Universe

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