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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

Paracelsus

Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.
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Herself Light Nature Understand Visible
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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Consequence Human Law Reason Ultimate Universe
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
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
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
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
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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Benefit Dosage Drugs
As you talk, so is your heart.
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Character Heart One Liner Talk
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
Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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Blood System Woman
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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Art Desire Reveal Time
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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Brisk Time Wind
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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Attack Body Fight Health Himself Nature Sick
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
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Alchemy Fall Influence Judgement Past
Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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Dosage Drugs
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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