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You are running to seek your ...

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

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

The abstractionist and the ma...

The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong by being in extremes. He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance.

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

Law it is . . . which hears w...

Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

. . . the poor man, whom the ...

. . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .

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Wealth begins . . . in giving...

Wealth begins . . . in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood. . . .

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The doctors of antiquity have...

The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover, coitus, fasting, drunkenness, and walking.

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

[Nature said] The sea shall d...

[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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[The imagination] . . . inspi...

[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.

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Why do we think love is a mag...

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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Mortal men ask God for good t...

Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.

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. . . if [writing] lift you f...

. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .

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The ideas of things intellect...

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

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Laurel crowns cleave to deser...

Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet; . . .

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A sturdy lad . . . who teams i...

A sturdy lad . . . who teams it, farms it . . . and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls.

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There is a moment in the histo...

There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant . . . with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

. . . if [writing] lift you fr...

. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

The doctors of antiquity have ...

The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover, coitus, fasting, drunkenness, and walking.

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

Laurel crowns cleave to desert...

Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet; . . .

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

The ideas of things intellectu...

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

In these times I don't, in a m...

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.

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

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