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As a supplement to the accepted answer, there is actually a passage in which Cicero expresses a contradictory opinion.

The context is that Simonides, who was asked to explain "quale sit deus," said he would respond in one day. As each day ended, though, he would ask for another day, explaining, "Quanto diutius considero tanto mihi spes videtur obscurior." Cicero comments:

Sed Simoniden arbitror...quia multa venirent in mentem acuta atque subtilia, dubitantem quid eorum esset verissimum desperasse omnem veritatem. (Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.60-61)

 

I believe that Simonides, as his mind considered many deep and subtle possibilities, despaired of finding any truth because he doubted which of these things was truest.

As a supplement to the accepted answer, there is actually a passage in which Cicero expresses a contradictory opinion.

The context is that Simonides, who was asked to explain "quale sit deus," said he would respond in one day. As each day ended, though, he would ask for another day, explaining, "Quanto diutius considero tanto mihi spes videtur obscurior." Cicero comments:

Sed Simoniden arbitror...quia multa venirent in mentem acuta atque subtilia, dubitantem quid eorum esset verissimum desperasse omnem veritatem. (Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.60-61)

 

I believe that Simonides, as his mind considered many deep and subtle possibilities, despaired of finding any truth because he doubted which of these things was truest.

As a supplement to the accepted answer, there is actually a passage in which Cicero expresses a contradictory opinion.

The context is that Simonides, who was asked to explain "quale sit deus," said he would respond in one day. As each day ended, though, he would ask for another day, explaining, "Quanto diutius considero tanto mihi spes videtur obscurior." Cicero comments:

Sed Simoniden arbitror...quia multa venirent in mentem acuta atque subtilia, dubitantem quid eorum esset verissimum desperasse omnem veritatem. (Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.60-61)

I believe that Simonides, as his mind considered many deep and subtle possibilities, despaired of finding any truth because he doubted which of these things was truest.

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As a supplement to the accepted answer, there is actually a passage in which Cicero expresses a contradictory opinion.

The context is that Simonides, who was asked to explain "quale sit deus," said he would respond in one day. As each day ended, though, he would ask for another day, explaining, "Quanto diutius considero tanto mihi spes videtur obscurior." Cicero comments:

Sed Simoniden arbitror...quia multa venirent in mentem acuta atque subtilia, dubitantem quid eorum esset verissimum desperasse omnem veritatem. (Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.60-61)

I believe that Simonides, as his mind considered many deep and subtle possibilities, despaired of finding any truth because he doubted which of these things was truest.