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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.

Paracelsus

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
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
PARACELSUS

Benefit Dosage Drugs
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
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Design Measurement Mystery Time Wind
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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Brisk Time Wind
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
PARACELSUS

Fools Fruit Imagination Oneself Time
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
PARACELSUS

Cure Fast Greatness
We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
PARACELSUS

Fools Ourselves Reality Regard Time
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
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
PARACELSUS

Alchemy Chemist Doctor Medicine Office
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
PARACELSUS

Breathe Flow Himself Live Source
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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Ourselves Prayer Preparation Skill
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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Art Doctor Healing Mindset Nature
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
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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Man Nature Reveal Statement
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.
PARACELSUS

Build Error Heaven Thrive
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.
PARACELSUS

Attack Body Fight Health Himself Nature Sick

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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