Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Art
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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.
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All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.
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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.
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Life is short, but art lives forever.
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It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
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Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.
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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.
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In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.
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Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.
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It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.
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There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.
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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].
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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.
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Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.
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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
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