Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.

Let no one who can be his own belong to another.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

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.