Quotes by Marsilio Ficino

• 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.
• 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.