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“Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Cicero.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d399c05b002b75c2fbffe020110f146ae2c493f79bad4a80224646fd7fa6d03b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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