Dives qui fieri vult, / Et cito vult fieri—He who wishes to become rich, is desirous of becoming so at once. Juv.
Divide et impera—Divide and govern.
Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana ædificavit 5 urbes—Divine nature gave the fields, man's invention built the cities. Varro.
Divination seems heightened to its highest power in woman. A. B. Alcott.
Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven. Hervey.
Divine moment, when over the tempest-tossed soul, as over the wild-weltering chaos, it was spoken: Let there be light. Even to the greatest that has felt such a moment, is it not miraculous and God-announcing; even as, under simpler figures, to the humblest and least? Carlyle.
Divine Philosophy, by whose pure light / We first distinguish, then pursue the right; / Thy power the breast from every error frees, / And weeds out all its vices by degrees. Juv.
Divine right, take it on the great scale, is found 10 to mean divine might withal. Carlyle.
Divines but peep on undiscovered worlds, / And draw the distant landscape as they please. Dryden.
Divinity should be empress, and philosophy and other arts merely her servants. Luther.