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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Paracelsus

In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
PARACELSUS

Break Heaven Human
Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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Himself Man
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
PARACELSUS

Alchemy Magic Process
The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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Art Health Medicine Root
Be not another, if you can be yourself.
PARACELSUS

Be Yourself Original
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
PARACELSUS

Cure Fast Greatness
Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
PARACELSUS

Blood System Woman
Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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Brother Call Fools Ourselves
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.
PARACELSUS

Burn Punishment Removal
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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Brisk Time Wind
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
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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Benefit Dosage Drugs
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
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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Hide Result Reveal
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.
PARACELSUS

Art Desire Reveal Time

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

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