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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

Paracelsus

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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Creation Earth Establishment Heaven Man Work
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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Cure Eyes Nature See Tree
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
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
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
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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Benefit Dosage Drugs
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
PARACELSUS

Alchemy Magic Process
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
The main reason for healing is love.
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Healing Love Reason
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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Poison Remedy Right
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
PARACELSUS

Leave Nature Reading Walk
Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
PARACELSUS

Man Perception Power See Spiritual
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
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Book Himself Knowledge Patient Rich Writing
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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Hide Result Reveal
Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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Be Yourself Original

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