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We should become angels and not devils, that’s why we have been created and born into the world. Therefore be and stick to what God has chosen you for.

— Paracelsus Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

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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.

Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Luther is abundantly learned, therefore you hate him and me, but we are at least a match for you.

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