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

- 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.

- 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…

- 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…

- Marsilio Ficino

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

- 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

Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.

- 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.

- Marsilio Ficino

Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.

- Marsilio Ficino