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39. "Chrysippus, Diogenes, and Antipater
employ the same reasoning. Then what ground is
there to doubt the absolute truth of my position?
For I have on my side reason, facts, peoples, and
races, both Greek and barbarian, our own ancestors,
the unvarying belief of all ages, the greatest philosophers, the poets, the wisest men, the builders of
cities, and the founders of republics. Are we not
satisfied with the unanimous judgement of men,
and do we wait for beasts to give their testimony
too?
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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