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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Positive, Art, Silence

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Teaching, Knowledge
"De Legibus (On the Laws)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter 19), circa 52 BC.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wise, Art, Philosophy

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Great Inspirational, Virtue

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Memories, Believe

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Nature, Science

Life is short, but art lives forever.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Life Is Short, Forever

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mother, Art, Philosophy

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Nature, Natural Environment
"De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter 34), 45 BC.

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Work, Men

Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Medicine, Sick
"De Natura Deorum", II. 4, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 502-04,

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Eloquence

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Refinement, Mutual

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Memories, Philosophy

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Men, Blood

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Justice, Grace

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Roots, Tree

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Natural Talent, Discipline
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.4704, Delphi Classics

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