The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
PARACELSUSThe book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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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?
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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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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Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
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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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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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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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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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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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