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?
PARACELSUSAnyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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The dose makes the poison.
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The main reason for healing is love.
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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 beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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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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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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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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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
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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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