Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.

For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.