Marsilio Ficino — Italian Philosopher born on October 19, 1433, died on October 01, 1499

Marsilio Ficino was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. He was also an astrologer, a reviver of Neoplatonism in touch with every major academic thinker and writer of his day and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, had enormous influence on the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy... (wikipedia)

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.
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?