Marcus Manilius Quotes

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How many realms since Troy have been o'erthrown? How many nations captive led? How oft Has Fortune up and down throughout the world Changed slavery for dominion?

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Near to Bootes the bright Crown is view'd And shines with stars of different magnitude: Or placed in front above the rest displays A vigorous light, and dwarfs surprising rays. This shone, since Theseus first his faith betray'd, The monument of the forsaken maid.

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Close by the Kneeling Bull behold The Charioteer, who gained by skill of old His name and heaven, as first his steeds he drove With flying wheels, seen and installed by Jove.

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Below his girdle, near his knees, he bears The bright Arcturus, fairest of the stars.

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Bright Scorpio, armed with poisonous tail, prepares Men's martial minds for violence and wars. His venom heats and boils their blood to rage And rapine spreads o'er the unlucky age.

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It is my delight to traverse the very air and spend my life touring the boundless skies, learning of the constellations and the contrary motions of the planets.

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First Aries, glorious in his golden wool, Looks back and wonders at the mighty Bull.

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His arms extended stretch o'er half the skies; His stride as large, and with a steady pace He marches on, and measures a vast space; On each broad shoulder a bright star display'd, And three obliquely grace his hanging blade.

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Who can believe that all these mighty works Have grown, unaided by the hand of God, From small beginnings? that the law is blind by which the world was made?

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No barriers, no masses of matter, however enormous, can withstand the powers of the mind the remotest corners yield to them; all things succumb, the very heaven itself is laid open.

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By several proofs experience art has made, Example being guide.

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Man must be so weighed as though there were a God within him.

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Seek not the measure of matter; fix your gaze
Upon the power of reason, not of bulk;
For reason 'tis that all things overcomes.

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And snatched from Jove the lightning shaft and power to thunder, and attributed the noise to the winds, the flame to the clouds.
Of human intelligence

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Death's law brings change to all created things;
Lands cease to know themselves as years roll on.
As centuries pass, e'en nations change their form,
Yet safe the world remains, with all it holds.

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Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.

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Who can know heaven except by its gifts? And who can find out God, unless the man who is himself an emanation from God?

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Who could know heaven save by heaven's gift and discover God save one who shares himself in the divine?

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[Human reason] freed men's minds from wondering at portents by wresting from Jupiter his bolts and power of thunder, and ascribing to the winds the noise and to the clouds the flame.

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It is easy to spread the sails to propitious winds, and to cultivate in different ways a rich soil, and to give lustre to gold and ivory, when the very raw material itself shines.

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As we are born we die, and the end commences with the beginning.

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