Author: Marsilio Ficino

Cited by

• Ian McEwan (1)
  • IN: black dogs (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: 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.
    FROM: letter to Giovanni Cavalcanti, (1475), Letter, Italy
• Jo Walton (2)
  • IN: The Philosopher's King (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing befits a man more than discourse on the soul. Thus the Delphic injunction "Know thyself" is fulfilled, and we examine everything else, whether above or beneath the soul, with deeper insight.
    FROM: letter to Jacobo Bracciolini, (None), Letter, Italy
  • IN: The Philosopher Kings (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing befits a man more than discourse on the soul. Thus the Delphic injunction "Know thyself" is fulfilled, and we examine everything else, whether above or beneath the soul, with deeper insight.
    FROM: letter to Jacobo Bracciolini, (None), Letter, Italy