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For the alchemist is the baker in baking the bread, the vintner in making the wine, the weaver in weaving cloth. Thus, whatever arises out of nature for human use is brought to that condition ordained by nature by an alchemist.

— Paracelsus the chapter Alchimia in Paragranum (1530)

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All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison.

The physician's duty is to heal the sick, not enrich the apothecaries.

Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.

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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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