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Nec tamen istas
quaestiones physicorum exterminandas puto. est enim
animorum ingeniorumque naturale quoddam quasi pabulum consideratio contemplatioque naturae: erigimur, altiores1 fieri videmur, humana despicimus2 cogitantesque supera atque caelestia haec nostra ut exigua
et minima contemnimus. indagatio ipsa rerum cum
maximarum tum etiam occultissimarum habet oblectationem; si vero aliquid occurrit3 quod veri simile vi-
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deatur, humanissima4 conpletur animus voluptate.
quaeret igitur haec et vester sapiens et hic noster.
Academicorum reliquiae cum Lucullo. M. Tullius Cicero. O. Plasberg. Leipzig. Teubner. 1922.
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