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All art is but imitation of nature. — Seneca

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All art is but imitation of nature.

In the original Latin

Omnis ars naturae imitatio est.

Seneca
65
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Nature of artArt
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65Classical antiquity
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Seneca
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Current citation
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Original citation
Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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