In his early twenties Cicero wrote the first two volumes of a work on “invention” – that is to say, the technique of finding ideas and arguments for a speech; in it he noted that the most important thing was “that we do not recklessly and presumptuously assume something to be true.” This resolute uncertainty was to be a permanent feature of his thought.
-Anthony Everitt
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