All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
PARACELSUSWhat we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
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The dose makes the poison.
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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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The main reason for healing is love.
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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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