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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

Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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Body Ingredient Name Science
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
That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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Live Reason Spirit
All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
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Amount Dosage Poison Quality
What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
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Benefit Cure Discover Remedy
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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Hide Result Reveal
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.
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Born Children Existence Heaven Hell Human State
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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Acceptance Dreams Greatness True
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
Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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Be Yourself Original
Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
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Arts Beginning Determination Imagination Man Uncertain Willing
For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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Country Different Earth Growth Thrive
I am different. Let this not upset you.
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Different Myself Upset Yourself
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
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
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
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
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Cure Fast Greatness
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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Build Error Heaven Thrive
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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Appearance Dreams God Greatness Natural Predicament Reveal Send
The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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Degree Love Medicine One Liner
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.
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Fools Ourselves Reality Regard Time
All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.
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Art Awakening Lying Man
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
The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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Beginning Power Wisdom
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar

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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