MARSILIO FICINO

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

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

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

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?

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

Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

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.

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