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The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.

Paracelsus

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
PARACELSUS

Fools Fruit Imagination Oneself Time
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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Benefit Dosage Drugs
We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
PARACELSUS

Fools Ourselves Reality Regard Time
Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
PARACELSUS

Man Perception Power See Spiritual
For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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Country Different Earth Growth Thrive
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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Acceptance Dreams Greatness True
Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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Dreams Element Fantasy Meaning
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
PARACELSUS

Alchemy Chemist Doctor Medicine Office
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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Amount Dosage Poison Quality
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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Experience Greatness Human Magic Power Reason
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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Brisk Time Wind
I am different. Let this not upset you.
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Different Myself Upset Yourself
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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Live Patient Type Weird
Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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Himself Man
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
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
PARACELSUS

Leave Nature Reading Walk

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