Marcus Manilius Quotes
Marcus Manilius (fl. 1st century AD) was a Roman poet and astrologer, traditionally held to be the author of a poem in five books called Astronomica.
Also known as: Manilius, Manilius, Marcus
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We are always beginning to live, but are never living.
Man must be so weighed as though there were a God within him.
Every one is in a small way the image of God.
Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
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.
As we are born we die, and the end commences with the beginning.
Everything that is created is changed by the laws of man; the earth does not know itself in the revolution of years; even the races of man assume various forms in the course of ages.
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.
The subject of itself is incompatible with an ornamental style, content if it is able to instruct.
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?
Nascentes morimur. We are born but to die.
By several proofs experience art has made,
Example being guide.
Time stands with impartial law.
The hours fly around in a circle.
Seek not the measure of matter; fix your gaze
Upon the power of reason, not of bulk;
For reason 'tis that all things overcomes.
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?
All things obey fixed laws.
Labor is itself a pleasure.
Who can know heaven except by its gifts? and who can find out God, unless the man who is himself an emanation from God?
(or "Who can know heaven unless by the grant of heaven?", reading munere)
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.