Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect . . . runs into fable, personifies every fact. . . .
Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them. - Marsilio Ficino
Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.
- Marsilio Ficino
The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in ord… - Marsilio Ficino
The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in ord…
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
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.
Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love. - Marsilio Ficino
Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.
[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word dropped in conversation, sets… - Marsilio Ficino
[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word dropped in conversation, sets…
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 be… - 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 of one thing by another be…
Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy. - Marsilio Ficino
Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.
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
The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.
Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money. - Marsilio Ficino
Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.
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