Marsilio Ficino
Philosopher
1433-10-19
Quotes by Marsilio Ficino
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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.
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The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.
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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.
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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.
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The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.
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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.
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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?
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