“Every one is in a small way the image of God.”
Exemplumque dei quisque est in imagine parva.
Book IV, line 895.
Astronomica
“Man must be so weighed as though there were a God within him.”
Impendendus homo est, deus esse ut possit in ipso.
Book IV, line 407.
Astronomica
“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?
Astronomica
“Who can believe that all these mighty works
Have grown, unaided by the hand of God,
From small beginnings? that the law is blind
by which the world was made?”
Quis credat tantas operum sine numine moles
Ex minimis, caecoque creatum foedere mundum?
Book I, line 492, as reported in Dictionary of Quotations (classical) (1897) by T. B. Harbottle, p. 240.
Astronomica