"The dose makes the poison." — Paracelsus
"The dose makes the poison."
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68 Quotes by Paracelsus
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage
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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing…
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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not…
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn't be revealed through its fruit.
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It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is…
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Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.
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There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may…
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Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things…
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We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act…
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of…
— Charles de Gaulle
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A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone?…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best?…
— Jonathan Lethem
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Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is…
— Claude Bernard
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With every effort, I learned a lot. With every mistake and failure, not only mine, but of those around me,…
— Mark Cuban
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I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry.…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I need a dose of the natural environment on a regular basis. It balances the bitumen and high rises of…
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