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.
Marsilio FicinoWho 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?
Marsilio FicinoLaw it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
Marsilio FicinoNo man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . .
Marsilio Ficino