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I am different. Let this not upset you.

Paracelsus

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
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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Man Nature Reveal Statement
However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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Alone Awakening Dreams Himself Room Talk
Man is ill because he is never still.
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Calm Man Sick
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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Breathe Flow Himself Live Source
Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Earth Element Man Planet Stars World
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
I am different. Let this not upset you.
PARACELSUS

Different Myself Upset Yourself
Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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Himself Man
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.
PARACELSUS

Build Error Heaven Thrive
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
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Design Measurement Mystery Time Wind
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
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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Acceptance Dreams Greatness True
The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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Degree Love Medicine One Liner
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
PARACELSUS

Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
PARACELSUS

Art Creation Flow Heaven Source

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