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Art pales when compared to the workings of nature.
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   Ars longa vita brevis. The craft so long [to learn], the life so short.


— Quoted in Seneca Debrevitate vitae,1. The original was in Greek.

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Ars adeo latet arte sua.

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— So art lies hid by its own artifice.
— X, 252.

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"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths." While Horace endeavored to make clear the very spirit and essence of the ancient myths, Euhemerus pretended, on the contrary, that "myths were the legendary history of kings and heroes, transformed into gods by the admiration of the nations." It is the latter method which was inferentially followed by Christians when they agreed upon the acceptation of euhemerized patriarchs, and mistook them for men who had really lived.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

— Chapter IX (Volume II)

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Memoriæ sacrum Typographia Ars artium omnium Conservatrix Hic primum inventa Circa annum MCCCCXL.


— Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all arts. This was first invented about the year 1440.
— Inscription on the façade of the house once occupied by Laurent Koster at Harlem. "The art preservative of all arts," probably taken from this.

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Ars longa, vita brevis.


— Art is long, life is short.
— Seneca's (De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1) Latin translation of the Greek by Hippocrates.

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Ars adeo latet arte sua.


— So art lies hid by its own artifice.
— X, 252.

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Ars prima regni est posse invidiam pati.

seneca the younger

— 'Tis the first art of kings, the power to suffer hate.Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), lines 353; (Lycus)

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Omnis Ars naturae imitatio est.

seneca the younger

— All art is but imitation of nature.Letter LXV: On the first cause, line 3.

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Divina Natura dedit agros, Ars humana ædificavit urbes.

marcus terentius varro

— It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities.
— Marcus Porcius Cato on Agriculture : Marcus Terentius Varro on Agriculture. W.D. Hooper & H.B. Ash. (translation). Harvard University Press, 1993. Bk. 3, ch. 1

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In re mathematica Ars proponendi pluris facienda est quam solvendi.

georg cantor

— In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.Doctoral thesis (1867); variant translation: In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

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Divina Natura dedit agros, Ars humana ædificavit urbes.


— It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities.
— Marcus Porcius Cato on Agriculture : Marcus Terentius Varro on Agriculture. W.D. Hooper & H.B. Ash. (translation). Harvard University Press, 1993. Bk. 3, ch. 1

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Divina natura dedit agros, Ars humana ædificavit urbes.

marcus terentius varro

— Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
— Marcus Terentius Varro, De Re Rustica, III. 1.

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Ars prima regni est posse invidiam pati.


— Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), lines 353; (Lycus)

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Omnis Ars naturae imitatio est.


— Letter LXV: On the first cause, line 3.

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Temporis Ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine.


— Ovid, Remedia Amoris. 131.

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