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title: "1 Love Magician Quotes By Marsilio Ficino"
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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsilio-ficino/why-do-we-think-love-is-a-magician-because-the-whole-power-of-magic/)

[Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsilio-ficino/)

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## More by Marsilio Ficino

> [Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsilio-ficino/never-worry-about-anything-live-in-the-present-live-now-be-happy/)

[Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsilio-ficino/)

> [ . . . if \[writing\] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsilio-ficino/if-writing-lift-you-from-your-feet-with-the-great-voice-of-eloquence/)

[Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsilio-ficino/)

> [Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsilio-ficino/mortal-men-ask-god-for-good-things-every-day-but-they-never-pray-that/)

[Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsilio-ficino/)

> [Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsilio-ficino/artists-in-each-of-the-arts-seek-after-and-care-for-nothing-but-love/)

[Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsilio-ficino/)

> [You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsilio-ficino/you-are-running-to-seek-your-friend-let-your-feet-run-but-your-mind/)

[Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsilio-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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsilio-ficino/why-do-we-think-love-is-a-magician-because-the-whole-power-of-magic/)

[Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsilio-ficino/)

> [What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsilio-ficino/what-is-odious-but-people-who-toast-their-feet-on-the-register/)

[Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsilio-ficino/)

> [ \[The imagination\] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsilio-ficino/the-imagination-inspires-an-audacious-mental-habit-we-are-as-elastic/)

[Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsilio-ficino/)

> [The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsilio-ficino/the-abstractionist-and-the-materialist-thus-mutually-exasperating/)

[Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsilio-ficino/)

> [Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsilio-ficino/everyone-believes-that-he-abounds-in-wisdom-but-is-short-of-money/)

[Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsilio-ficino/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsilio-ficino/in-these-times-i-don-t-in-a-manner-of-speaking-know-what-i-want/)

[Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsilio-ficino/)

> [Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsilio-ficino/books-that-distribute-things-with-as-daring-a-freedom-as-we-use-in/)

[Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsilio-ficino/)

> [Wealth begins . . . in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsilio-ficino/wealth-begins-in-giving-on-all-sides-by-tools-and-auxiliaries-the/)

[Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsilio-ficino/)

> [“Artist in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsilio-ficino/artist-in-each-of-the-arts-seek-after-and-care-for-nothing-but-love/)

[Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsilio-ficino/)

> [He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsilio-ficino/he-tastes-nothing-who-has-not-tasted-for-himself/)

[Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsilio-ficino/)

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