The dose makes the poison.
PARACELSUSIt should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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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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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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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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