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Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
— Marsilio Ficino
Tags: wonder, feet, men, society

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Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
— Marsilio Ficino
Tags: impressed, melancholy, beginning, me
In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.
— Marsilio Ficino The Letters of Marsilio Ficino
Tags: uncertainty, hope, doubt, ambivalence
The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.
— Marsilio Ficino
Tags: soul, renaissance, philosophy, neoplatonism, italy, immortality, ficino
Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.
— Marsilio Ficino
Tags: spirituality, renaissance, philosophy, magic, love, italy
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