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Full Idea
If human nature were interrogated by some god as to whether it was content with its own senses in a sound and undamaged state or demanded something better, I cannot see what more it could ask for.
Gist of Idea
If we have complete healthy senses, what more could the gods give us?
Source
M. Tullius Cicero (Academica [c.45 BCE], II.vii.19)
Book Ref
Cicero: 'De Natura Deorum and Academica (XIX)', ed/tr. Rackham,H. [Harvard Loeb 1933], p.493
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