Top 15 Marcus Manilius Quotes

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

Materiae ne quaere modum; sed perspice vires
Quas ratio, non pondus habet; ratio omnia vincit.

Every one is in a small way the image of God.

Exemplumque dei quisque est in imagine parva.

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

Impendendus homo est, deus esse ut possit in ipso.

Labor is itself a pleasure.

Labor est etiam ipse voluptas.

Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.

We are always beginning to live, but are never living.

Victuros agimus semper, nec vivimus unquam.

Æquo stat fœdere tempus.

Facile est ventis dare vela secundis,
Fecundumque solum varias agitare per artes,
Auroque atque ebori decus addere, cum rudis ipsa
Materies niteat.

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

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