Marcus Manilius citáty
Marcus Manilius
Marcus Manilius byl římský básník a autor díla Astronomica, které v pěti knihách podává výklad antické astrologie a stoické filosofie.
Citáty Marcus Manilius
„As we are born we die, and the end commences with the beginning.“
— Marcus Manilius
Book IV, line 16. Quoted by Michel de Montaigne in Essays (1580), Book I, Chapter 19.
Variant translation: When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning.
„The hours fly around in a circle.“
— Marcus Manilius
Book I, line 641.
„By several proofs experience art has made,
Example being guide.“
— Marcus Manilius
Book I, line 61. Quoted by Michel de Montaigne in Essays, Vol. III, Ch. 13 (tr. Charles Cotton).
Variant translation: Experience, after many trials, perfected the art, example showing the way.
„We are always beginning to live, but are never living.“
— Marcus Manilius
Book IV, line 5.
„Materiae ne quaere modum; sed perspice vires
Quas ratio, non pondus habet; ratio omnia vincit.“
— Marcus Manilius
Seek not the measure of matter; fix your gaze
Upon the power of reason, not of bulk;
For reason 'tis that all things overcomes.
Book IV, line 924, as reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of Quotations (classical) (1897), p. 130.
