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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

Paracelsus

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
Man is ill because he is never still.
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Calm Man Sick
Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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Be Yourself Himself
Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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Dosage Medicine Nourishment Poison Wine
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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Fools Fruit Imagination Oneself Time
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
That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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Live Reason Spirit
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
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
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
The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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Art Health Medicine Root
In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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Break Heaven Human
The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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Beginning Power Wisdom
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
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
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Art Body Copy Inheritance Medicine

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

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