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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.

Paracelsus

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
PARACELSUS

Gold Man Nature
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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Ourselves Prayer Preparation Skill
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
PARACELSUS

Acceptance Dreams Greatness True
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.
PARACELSUS

Creation Earth Establishment Heaven Man Work
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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Art Doctor Healing Mindset Nature
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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Leave Nature Reading Walk
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
PARACELSUS

Art Employment Medicine Patient Power Science
Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
PARACELSUS

Dosage Medicine Nourishment Poison Wine
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
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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Poison Remedy Right
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
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
Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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Earth Impossible Mindset Right
All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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Distinguish Poison Remedy Simplicity
Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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Be Yourself Original
Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
PARACELSUS

Dosage Drugs

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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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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