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Marsilio Ficino Quotes


Marsilio Ficino (Latin name: Marsilius Ficinus) was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance, an astrologer, a reviver of Neoplatonism who was in touch with every major academic thinker and writer of his day, and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin.
(1433 - 1499)


Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.

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?

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.