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    Thomas More
    “[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.”
    ― Thomas More, Utopia
    tags: clothing, fashion, humorous, renaissance
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    “While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
    -Leonardo Da Vinci”
    ― Oliver Bowden, Renaissance
    tags: assassin-s, creed, da, leonardo, renaissance, vinci
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    James K. Morrow
    “The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.”
    ― James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder
    tags: fighting, humor, medieval, renaissance
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    Marsilio Ficino
    “The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.”
    ― Marsilio Ficino
    tags: ficino, immortality, italy, neoplatonism, philosophy, renaissance, soul
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    James Baldwin
    “Whose little boy are you?”
    ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
    tags: african-american, black, church, coming-of-age, epiphany, god, harlem, institution, james-baldwin, racism, religion, renaissance, youth
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    Marsilio Ficino
    “Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.”
    ― Marsilio Ficino
    tags: italy, love, magic, philosophy, renaissance, spirituality
    38 likes

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    Stephen Greenblatt
    “Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.”
    ― Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
    tags: art, renaissance, swerve
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    “Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances.”
    ― Sylvan Barnet
    tags: doctor-faustus, men, mortal, renaissance
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    Julianne Davidow
    “Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.”
    ― Julianne Davidow
    tags: existence, italy, love, renaissance, spiritual-world
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    Theodora Goss
    “MARY: Renaissance, not medieval. Most of the castle was built during the sixteenth century, although I believe its foundations date from the fourteenth.

    CATHERINE: And our readers will care why?

    MARY: You may not care for accuracy, but I do—and Carmilla will, when she reads this book.

    CATHERINE: If I ever get the damn thing written, with all these interruptions!”
    ― Theodora Goss, European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
    tags: accuracy, carmilla, catherine-moreau, mary-jekyll, renaissance
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: essay, french, philosophy, renaissance, skepticism
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “L'honneste est stable et permanent.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: essay, french, philosophy, renaissance, skepticism
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: essay, french, philosophy, renaissance, skepticism
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: essay, french, philosophy, renaissance, skepticism
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: essay, french, philosophy, renaissance, skepticism
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: essay, french, philosophy, renaissance, skepticism
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: essay, french, philosophy, renaissance, skepticism
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: essay, french, philosophy, renaissance, skepticism
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: essay, french, philosophy, renaissance, skepticism
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Language is the source of misunderstandings.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: french, language, writer
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    tags: french, greed, love, money
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    tags: cowardice, french, love, men, women
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    Margot Adler
    “The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life.”
    ― Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
    tags: wicca, witch, witchcraft, witches
    236 likes

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  • #24
    Steve Martin
    “Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: french, humor
    479 likes



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