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We all conceal
A god within us, we all deal
With heaven direct, from whose high places we derive
The inspiration by which we live.

— Ovid

Est deus in nobis, et sunt commercia caeli:
Sedibus aetheriis spiritus ille venit.

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Book III, lines 549–550 (tr. James Michie)

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