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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?
(or "Who can know heaven unless by the grant of heaven?", reading munere)

— Marcus Manilius

Quis cœlum possit nisi cœli munere nosse?
Et reperire deum nisi qui pars ipse deorum est?

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