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et, si Praxiteles signum aliquod ex molari
lapide conatus esset exsculpere, Parium marmor
mallem rude; at si illud idem artifex expolisset,
plus in manibus fuisset quam in marmore. denique
natura materia doctrinae est; haec fingit, illa fingitur. nihil ars sine materia, materiae etiam sine arte
pretium est, ars summa materia optima melior.
[p. 350]
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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