"[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people……" — Marsilio Ficino
"[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by poverty, border-wars . . . seafaring . . ."
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Marsilio Ficino
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25 Quotes by Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino has 25 quotes on this site.
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Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.
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What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . .…
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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…
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There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness…
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The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises…
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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…
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Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
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Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society…
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You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
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Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.
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Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.
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