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Single Idea 2673

[filed under theme 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth ]

Full Idea

There cannot be more than one truth.

Gist of Idea

There cannot be more than one truth

Source

M. Tullius Cicero (Academica [c.45 BCE], II.xlviii.147)

Book Ref

Cicero: 'De Natura Deorum and Academica (XIX)', ed/tr. Rackham,H. [Harvard Loeb 1933], p.657


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Virtues must be very detached, to avoid being motivated by pleasure [Cicero]
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