Quotes about Renaissance

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I go to seek a Great Perhaps. — François Rabelais
Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attracti — Marsilio Ficino
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time. — Marsilio Ficino
L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
L'honneste est stable et permanent. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
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
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
Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Whose little boy are you? — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
This was the end of the Renaissance. Culture, once beloved and fostered by the papacy, opened the way to dangerous freed — Gaia Servadio, Renaissance Woman
The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the Uni — Aberjhani, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change — Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must have seemed an ine — Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everyth — Emma Watson
In other words, Botticelli's ideal women look like women and not boys. They're soft and curvaceous. Healthy and rounded. — Sylvain Reynard, The Raven