Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.

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

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

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.