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

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Source: "Die dritte Defension wegen des Schreibens der neuen Rezepte," Septem Defensiones 1538. Werke Bd. 2, Darmstadt 1965, p. 510 (full text)
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