Marcus Manilius - Astronomica

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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