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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

Paracelsus

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
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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Mathematics Point Science Wisdom
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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Body Creation Greatness Sick Soul
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.
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Fools Ourselves Reality Regard Time
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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Alchemy Chemist Doctor Medicine Office
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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Fools Fruit Imagination Oneself Time
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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Poison Remedy Right
Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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Blood System Woman
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Gold Man Nature
The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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Degree Love Medicine One Liner
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Cure Fast Greatness
Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.
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Appearance God Goodness Himself
Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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Dosage Drugs
He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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Himself Love Understand Worth
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
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

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