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“No one who is not utterly blind can fail to see that God gathered all the beauty of which the whole world is capable of in woman.”
― Henry Cornelius Agrippa

“Only for you, children of doctrine & learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places & gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom.”
― Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, De Occulta Philosophia

“I while yet a youth wrote in a quite large volume three books of magical things, which I called De occulta philosophia, in which whatever was then erroneous because of my curious youth, now, more cautious, I wish to retract by this recantation, for formerly I spent much time and goods on these vanities.”
― Cornelius Agrippa, The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science

“La vera, suprema bestemmia è dichiarare divino ciò che è di mano umana.”
― Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa di Nettesheim