„Jen co se zrodíme, mřeme, a konec z počátku plyne.“
Varianta: Jen co se zrodíme, umřeme, a konec z počátku plyne.
Marcus Manilius citáty
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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
„Zkušenost v oborech různých tak dala umění vzniknout, na cestu příklad svítil.“
Originál: (la) PER VARIOS USUS ARTEM EXPERIENTIA FECIT, EXEMPLO MONSTRANTE VIAM
„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.“
— Marcus Manilius, Astronomica
Book I, line 515, as reported in Dictionary of Quotations (classical) (1897) by T. B. Harbottle, p. 197.
G. P. Goold's translation: Everything born to a mortal existence is subject to change, nor does the earth notice that, despoiled by the passing years, it bears an appearance which varies through the ages.
Variant translation (disputed): 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.
Astronomica
Originál: (la) Omnia mortali mutantur lege creata,
Nec se cognoscunt terræ vertentibus annis,
Et mutant variam faciem per sæcula gentes,
At manet incolumis mundus suaque omnia servat.
„All things obey fixed laws.“
— Marcus Manilius, Astronomica
Book I, line 479.
Astronomica
Originál: (la) Certis legibus omnia parent.
„By several proofs experience art has made,
Example being guide.“
— Marcus Manilius, Astronomica
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.
Astronomica
Originál: (la) Per varios usus artem experientia fecit,
Exemplo monstrante viam.
„As we are born we die, and the end commences with the beginning.“
— Marcus Manilius, Astronomica
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.
Astronomica
Originál: (la) Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.
„Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.“
— Marcus Manilius, Astronomica
As we are born we die, and the end commences with the beginning.
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.
Astronomica
„Labor is itself a pleasure.“
— Marcus Manilius, Astronomica
Variant translation (reading ipsa): Even pleasure itself is a toil.
Book IV, line 155. Explained by Housman ad loc. The first reading is the correct one in the context.
Astronomica
Originál: (la) Labor est etiam ipse voluptas.
„Man must be so weighed as though there were a God within him.“
— Marcus Manilius, Astronomica
Book IV, line 407.
Astronomica
Originál: (la) Impendendus homo est, deus esse ut possit in ipso.
„Seek not the measure of matter; fix your gaze
Upon the power of reason, not of bulk;
For reason 'tis that all things overcomes.“
— Marcus Manilius, Astronomica
Materiae ne quaere modum; sed perspice vires
Quas ratio, non pondus habet; ratio omnia vincit.
Book IV, line 924, as reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of Quotations (classical) (1897), p. 130.
Astronomica
Originál: (la) Materiae ne quaere modum; sed perspice vires
Quas ratio, non pondus habet; ratio omnia vincit.
„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.“
— Marcus Manilius, Astronomica
Book III, line 26.
Astronomica
Originál: (la) Facile est ventis dare vela secundis,
Fecundumque solum varias agitare per artes,
Auroque atque ebori decus addere, cum rudis ipsa
Materies niteat.
„Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.“
— Marcus Manilius, Astronomica
Book I, line 90.
Astronomica
Originál: (la) Semper enim ex aliis alias proseminat usus.
„We are always beginning to live, but are never living.“
— Marcus Manilius, Astronomica
Book IV, line 5.
Astronomica
Originál: (la) Victuros agimus semper, nec vivimus unquam.
„The hours fly around in a circle.“
— Marcus Manilius, Astronomica
Book I, line 641.
Astronomica
Originál: (la) Volat hora per orbem.
„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.“
— Marcus Manilius, Astronomica
Book I, line 541.
Astronomica
Originál: (la) Rationi nulla resistunt.
Claustra nec immensæ moles, ceduntque recessus:
Omnia succumbunt, ipsum est penetrabile cœlum.
