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 Copy Share Image
. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow,… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share
Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them. — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share
You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not. — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share
Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share
What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . . — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share
[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share
The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share
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… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again. — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share
Wealth begins . . . in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share
