Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicerowas a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and was one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionStatesman
art finished nature
Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
art nature finished
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
art great-inspirational virtue
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
art life-is-short forever
Life is short, but art lives forever.
mother art philosophy
Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].
art born investigation
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
art teaching knowledge
Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.
art refinement kinship
All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.
art work men
Let every man practice the art that he knows best.
art roots tree
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.
art memories believe
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.
wise art philosophy
Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.
art eloquence
There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.
art medicine sick
Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.