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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Paracelsus

It 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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Burn Punishment Removal
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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Cure Eyes Nature See Tree
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
PARACELSUS

Book Himself Knowledge Patient Rich Writing
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.
PARACELSUS

Appearance Dreams God Greatness Natural Predicament Reveal Send
All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
PARACELSUS

Distinguish Poison Remedy Simplicity
Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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Dosage Drugs
Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
PARACELSUS

Brother Call Fools Ourselves
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
PARACELSUS

Cure Fast Greatness
Some children are born from heaven and others are born from hell, because each human being has his inherent tendencies, and these tendencies belong to his spirit, and indicate the state in which he existed before he was born.
PARACELSUS

Born Children Existence Heaven Hell Human State
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
It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
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Constitution Existence Influence Man Rule Wisdom
Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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Be Yourself Original
That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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Live Reason Spirit
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.
PARACELSUS

Breathe Flow Himself Live Source
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
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

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