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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.

Paracelsus

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
PARACELSUS

Amount Dosage Poison Quality
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
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
PARACELSUS

Alchemy Fall Influence Judgement Past
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Cure Fast Greatness
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
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
PARACELSUS

Consequence Human Law Reason Ultimate Universe
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
PARACELSUS

Gold Man Nature
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
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
As you talk, so is your heart.
PARACELSUS

Character Heart One Liner Talk
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
PARACELSUS

Poison Remedy Right
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
PARACELSUS

Art Body Copy Inheritance Medicine
The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
PARACELSUS

Appearance Dreams God Greatness Natural Predicament Reveal Send
A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
PARACELSUS

Alcohol Divine Medicine
He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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Himself Love Understand Worth
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
PARACELSUS

Born Creation Element Establishment Heaven Himself Man Thinking

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