Famous Marsilio Ficino Quotes & Sayings

No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars to prove it. — Katharine O'Shea

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. — Thomas Jefferson

Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke. — Mark Twain

People have a courage to die, but don't have a courage to live. — Sarvesh Jain

What Does It Matter What We Believe, as long as we treat others the way we want to be treated? — Jeffrey A. White

Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading. — A.N.L. Munby

Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world. — Lisa Kristine

I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages. — Marcus Du Sautoy

There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station. — Rachel Nichols

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing. — Chuck Palahniuk

Really? Is this wrong? Because I can't tell anymore. — Hank Moody

And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face. — Rowan Atkinson

I don't wish to inhabit the world under false pretences. I'm relieved to have discovered my identity after being so confused about it for so many years. Why should people be afraid if I confide in them? Yet people will always be afraid and jealous of those who finally establish their identity; it leads them to consider their own, to seclude it, cosset it, for fear it may be borrowed or interfered with, and when they are in the act of protecting it they suffer the shock of realising that their identity is nothing, it is something they dreamed and never knew; and then begins the painstaking search - what shall they choose - beast? another human being? insect? bird? — Janet Frame