A Quote by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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Medicine Offer Poison

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German - Critic
January 22, 1729 - February 15, 1781

Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world.

Sir Fulke Greville

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

Mahatma Gandhi

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The difference between a good medicine and a poison is the dosage.

Laura Huxley

Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage

Paracelsus

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

Stefan Molyneux

Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

Alice Sebold

Criticism is like medicine. It’s poison unless carefully administered at the right dose.

Michael Hyatt

The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Paracelsus

They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.

Harmeet Singh

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

John Frederick Boyes

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

Aubrey McClendon

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

I wish people would call poisons poison. I don't mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it's a poison, and coffee's a poison, but the Americans lie so.