Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Meditations. xi. 10.

If it is not seemly, do it not; if it is not true, speak it not.

Meditations. xii. 17.

Footnotes

[749:1] See Publius Syrus, page [712].

A similar saying falls from his lips at another time: "Let every act and speech and purpose be framed as though this moment thou mightest take thy leave of life."

[750:1] The translator is in doubt about this passage. Commentators differ in regard to it, and the text may be corrupt.

[752:1] Democritus apud Senecam: De Ira, iii. 6; De Animi Tranquillitate, 13.

[756:1] Fragmenta Euripidis, apud Aristotelem, N. A. viii. 1, 6.