But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.