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 FicinoIn 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 FicinoWealth begins . . . in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood. . . .
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