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Full Idea
Are the gods all exactly the same? If not, then one must be more beautiful than another.
Gist of Idea
Either the gods are identical, or one is more beautiful than another
Source
M. Tullius Cicero (On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') [c.44 BCE], I.80)
Book Ref
Cicero: 'The Nature of the Gods', ed/tr. McGregor,Horace [Penguin 1972], p.102
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