“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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An Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsilio_Ficino>Wikipedia</a>).
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“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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“The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.”
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“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.”
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“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?”
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“Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.”
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